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The Triumph of Bacchus (Greek: Ο Θρίαμβος του Βάκχου) is a painting by Diego Velázquez, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is popularly known as Los borrachos or The Drinkers (also The Drunks). Velázquez painted The Triumph of Bacchus after arriving in Madrid from Seville and just before his voyage to Italy.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez [a] [b] (baptized 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art. [5]
This is a list of paintings and drawings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Velázquez is estimated to have produced between only 110 and 120 known canvases. [ 1 ] Among these paintings, however, are many widely known and influential works.
Diego recommended that they become soldiers of the Cross. Thus a new order was created in 1157. Thus a new order was created in 1157. Motivated by the desire for religious and pecuniary rewards, these brethren were eager to take the offensive against the Moors .
In late 1637, Philip IV and Olivares decided to increase to size of the Army of Flanders to over 80,000, for which they intended to send 4,700,000 ducats to Brussels. [18] Added to them the Imperial army under Piccolomini, the king and his valido expected to align about 100,000 men in the Netherlands, 60,000 to face the French and 40,000 ...
Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting ' [a] pronounced [las meˈninas]) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque.
The Farmers' Lunch (Almuerzo de campesinos) is one of the earliest paintings by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Painted in oil on canvas in 1617, it combines a still life of food and drink with a depiction of three comic farmers, whose physiognomy the artist studies closely. The composition shows a younger man gesturing with his right hand ...
The Count-Duke of Olivares, portrayed by Diego de Velázquez. Continuing the conventional view of the conspiracy: while Medina Sidonia an Ayamonte awaited notice from Portugal about the presence of a French-Dutch fleet to collaborate and begin the uprising, he was called to court. Playing for time, he excused himself citing reasons of health.