Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Diego Velazquez at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
11 works by Diego Velazquez
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Head of a Man in Profile, ca.1616
Luncheon, ca.1617
Portrait of Count-Duke Olivares, 1638
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
3 paintings online
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW!
Diego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
4 paintings by Diego Velázquez online
Diego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
(Click on "ampliar imagen" for a huge enlargement of the image)
Retrato de D. Cristóbal Suárez de Ribera
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Diego Velazquez at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Diego Velazquez
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Diego Velazquez at the Prado Museum, Madrid
48 works online
Rijksmuseum, 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!
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
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:
Diego Velazquez in the Art Renewal Center
Diego Velazquez in the Artchive
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Diego Velazquez at CGFA
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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The Athenaeum 
114 works online by Velazquez
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia 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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Diego Velazquez 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, 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
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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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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Diego Velasquez
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