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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 June 1599, 1599
- Died
- 6 August 1660, 1660, 7 August 1660
- Place of birth
- Seville
- Place of death
- Madrid
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Diego
- Family name
- Rodríguez
- Father
- Juan Rodríguez de Silva
- Mother
- Jerónima Velázquez
- Spouse
- Juana Pacheco
- Movement
- Baroque
- Genre
- portrait painting, mythological painting, history painting, religious painting, portrait, architectural painting, genre art, landscape painting, nude, figure, animal art, religious art
- Occupation
- painter, artist, visual artist
- Position held
- court painter, Great Lodging Master of the Palace
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Awards
- Order of Santiago
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
- date of baptism
- 6 June 1599
- depicted by
- Self Portrait
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), The Catholic Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Velázquez, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Velazquez, Diccionario de escritores, maestros y oradores naturales de Sevilla y su actual provincia (1922-1925)
- different from
- Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar
- facial hair
- hooked mustache
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, The Frick Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Groeningemuseum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Spanish
- member of
- Order of Santiago
- notable work
- The Triumph of Bacchus, Las Meninas, Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, The Surrender of Brea, The Waterseller of Seville, Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV
- place of burial
- Madrid
- second family name in Spanish name
- Velázquez
- sponsor
- Philip IV of Spain
- student
- Tomás de Aguiar
- student of
- Francisco Pacheco
- topic has template
- Template:Diego Velázquez
- topic's main category
- Category:Diego Velázquez
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