Diego Velázquez
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Diego Velázquez (6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Quotes
[edit]- Raphael, to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner.
- As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71
- Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa
Quotes about Diego Velázquez
[edit]- I have had Three Masters-Nature, Velázquez, And Rembrandt.
- Francisco de Goya Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016) p 178