Las Meninas, detail (self-portrait) - Diego Velazquez

Diego Velazquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez

Born: 06 June 1599; Seville Spain in terms of modern geography

Death: 06 August 1660; Madrid Spain in terms of modern geography

Active years: 1616 - 1660

Nationality: Spanishes

Art Form: Painting

Art Movement: Baroque

Style: Baroque

Influenced by: Caravaggio, Titian

Influenced on: Francis Bacon, Frank W. Benson, Carolus-Duran, Gustave Courbet, Alfred Dehodencq, Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Piotr Michałowski, Oleksandr Murashko, Pablo Picasso, Ilya Repin, Joshua Reynolds, John Singer Sargent, Gerard Terborch, Russ Warren

Art Group: Seville School

Teachers: Francisco Pacheco

Friends and Co-owners: Peter Paul Rubens

Family and Relatives: Francisco Pacheco

Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Ve...

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