Definition of Velázquez, Diego in English:
Velázquez, Diego
proper noun
(1599–1660), Spanish painter, court painter to Philip IV; full name Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. His portraits humanized the formal Spanish tradition of idealized figures. Notable works: Pope Innocent X (1650), The Toilet of Venus (known as The Rokeby Venus, c.1651), and Las Meninas (c.1656).
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