Portrait of a Man by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
by Carlos Diaz
Title
Portrait of a Man by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
Artist
Carlos Diaz
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Portrait of a Man - Remastered by Carlos Diaz
ca. 1635
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
This is probably the "portrait of Diego, clothes to be finished" listed in an inventory of the artist's possessions. The sitter relates to a figure in Velázquez's Surrender of Breda (Museo del Prado, Madrid). Scholars have questioned whether the painter would have dared to include himself as a bystander at such a historic military victory, and the surviving evidence suggests that he rarely made studies for his larger works. However, if the figure in that composition is the artist, a preparatory step such as this would have made it easier for Velázquez to transfer his likeness to that large painting.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period.
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