<p>Diego Vel&#225;zquez (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 &#8220;The Water ...

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 ...

Diego Velazquez painted An Old Woman Cooking Eggs before he was 20 years old. It is clearly a demonstration piece. Everything is on display. The contents of the scene are laid out around the ...