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Diego Velázquez | Who was, biography, artistic style!

Diego Velazquez Biography

  • Full Name:
  • Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
  • Short Name:
  • Velázquez
  • Date of Birth:
  • 06 Jun
  • Date of Death:
  • 06 Aug
  • Focus:
  • Paintings
  • Mediums:
  • Oil, Other
  • Subjects:
  • Figure, Scenery
  • Art Movement:

  • Baroque

  • Hometown:

  • Seville, Spain

The biography of Diego Velázquez is the story of an artist on a quest for fame, glory, and power.

Born into a middle class family but raised with illusions of grandeur, Velázquez's life was devoted not only to becoming the best painter in Spain, but to climbing the social ladder up to the giddiest of heights.

Velázquez was born in Seville to father Juan Rodriquez de Silva, a lawyer of Portuguese-Jewish descent, and mother Jerónima Velázquez, a member of the hidalgo class (a minor form of aristocracy).

The Velázquez family was in the same situation as most of Spanish society: although the family had illusions of grandeur and pretentions to nobility, their tainted, Jewish ancestry and minor social status