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Diego Velázquez: Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa of Spain, 1655
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Diego Velázquez

[Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1660]

• Also known as:  Diego Velásquez
Diego Velázquez de Silva
• Relationships: Father-in-law of Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.
Studied under Francisco Pacheco.
His lifelong studio assistant was Juan de Pareja.
Velázquez' students included Antonio Puga.
• Browse all:  Spanish artists

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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteAlte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
11 works by Diego Velazquez

Notable SiteHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Head of a Man in Profile, ca.1616
Luncheon, ca.1617
Portrait of Count-Duke Olivares, 1638

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
3 paintings online

Notable SiteKunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Database, Paris

Notable SiteLouvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)   NEW!  

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
4 paintings by Diego Velázquez online

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting

Notable SiteMuseo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)  
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Retrato de D. Cristóbal Suárez de Ribera

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Diego Velazquez

Notable SiteNational Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at the Prado Museum, Madrid
48 works online

Notable SiteRijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish)  

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain   NEW!
Portrait of Philip IV (fragment)

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Portrait of Philip IV on horseback, 1634-40

Frick Collection, New York City
King Philip IV of Spain, 1644

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Portrait of Innocent X, 1650

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Don Pedro de Barberana

Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)   NEW!  
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Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa), ca.1648

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Portrait of King Philip IV, ca.1623-24

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
The Immaculate Conception, ca.1618

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)   NEW!  
Démocrite

Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)   NEW!  
Autorretrato (Self-Portrait)

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Saint Paul

Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France   NEW!

Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City   NEW!
3 paintings online

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
Many works online

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portrait of the Infanta Maria Teresa

Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland   NEW!

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Philip IV, King of Spain, ca.1625/28

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Prince Baltasar Carlos in Silver, ca.1633
The Lady with a Fan, ca.1630-50

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
The Waterseller of Seville, ca.1620

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteDiego Velazquez in the Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteDiego Velazquez in the Artchive  

Notable SiteBildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Notable SiteDiego Velazquez at CGFA  

Notable SiteRasiel's Wallpapers
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Notable SiteThe Athenaeum  
114 works online by Velazquez

Notable SiteWeb Gallery of Art  

Notable SiteWebMuseum  

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Aiwaz Panopticon

Artyzm

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Scroll down for a work from a 2007 exhibition

Olga's Gallery

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site   NEW!

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's
Saint Rufina

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Modernist Journals Project

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Diego Velazquez  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Rome's Magnificent Homage to Velazquez," article by Roderick Conway Morris

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Water-Seller of Seville, ca.1620

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Prince Baltasar Carlos in Silver, 1632-33

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Dwarf Sitting on the Floor, 1645

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Manet/Velázquez: Brilliant Exhibit Crossing Pyrénées

Time Magazine
"Velazquez's Binding Ethic", 1989 article by Robert Hughes

Time Magazine
"Spain's Conquistador", 1999 article by Robert Hughes


"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Velazquez: Painter and Courtier


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Velazquez: The Technique of Genius


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Diego Velazquez: The Face of Spain


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Velasquez: The Genius of the Spanish School


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Masters of Art: Velazquez


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