(Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, a Spanish painter and a great exponent of Spanish painting, is considered one of the greatest painters in all of history.
He was the firstborn son of Juan Rodríguez de Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, both natives of Seville. Juan Rodríguez de Silva was apparently a nobleman of limited means, whose parents had come to settle in Seville from Oporto. With the freedom that...
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