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Diego Vel¨¢zquez Diego Rodr¨ªguez de Silva y Vel¨¢zquez (June, 1599 ¨C August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Vel¨¢zquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. His two visits to Italy while part of the Spanish court are well-documented. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he created scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece, Las Meninas (1656). Starting in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Vel¨¢zquez's artwork proved a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular ¨¦douard Manet. Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dal¨ª, have paid tribute to Vel¨¢zquez by recreating several of his most famous works. Early life Vel¨¢zquez, born in Seville, Andalusia early in June 1599 and baptized on June 6, was the son of Juan Rodr¨ªguez de Silva, a lawyer of noble Portuguese descent, and Jer¨®nima Vel¨¢zquez, a member of Seville's hidalgo class, an order of minor aristocracy (it was a Spanish custom, in order to maintain a legacy of maternal inheritance, for the eldest male to adopt the name of his mother). He was educated by his parents to fear God and, intended for a learned profession, received good training in languages and philosophy. But he showed an early gift for art; consequently, he began to study under Francisco de Herrera, a vigorous painter who disregarded the Italian influence of the early Seville school. Vel¨¢zquez remained with him for one year. It was probably from Herrera that he learned to use brushes with long bristles. After leaving Herrera's studio when he was 11 years old, Vel¨¢zquez began to serve as an apprentice under the pedantic Francisco Pacheco, a founded artist and teacher in Seville. Though considered a generally dull, commonplace painter, at times Pacheco would express a simple, direct realism that is in contradiction to the style of Raphael that he was taught. Vel¨¢zquez remained in Pacheco's school for five years, studying proportion and perspective and witnessing the trends in the literary and artistic circles of Seville.
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