In 1650, Diego Velázquez painted this ennobling portrait of Juan de Pareja, a studio assistant enslaved in his studio. Pareja became an artist in his own right, and his paintings are the focus of ...

Diego Velázquez (Rodriguez de Silva y) was the most famous Spanish artist of his time. He was born in Seville in 1599 and died in 1660. After early successes such as “The Water Carrier of ...

Diego Velázquez (b. 1599). At the Cleveland Museum of Art. Great Works, In Focus. A series featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United States.

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical ...

Diego Velázquez’s full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain is coming to market in February at Sotheby’s in New York and is expected to sell in the region of US$35 million.

Diego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria” (1652-53), a monumental portrait of the daughter of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif ...