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Portrait of Francisco Pacheco (1622) by Diego Velázquez Francisco Pacheco, Lo Judici Final ("The Last Judgment"), Musée Goya, Castres, France.. Francisco Pérez del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644), known by his pseudonym Francisco Pacheco, was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Alonso Cano and Diego Velázquez, as well as the latter's father-in-law.
A painting by Francisco Pacheco (c. 1616) for a hospital named after Sebastian and run by a religious confraternity professionalises Irene, showing Sebastian sitting up in bed, and Irene in the habit of a nun working in the hospital. [28]
Francisco Pacheco, the Spanish Baroque painter under whom Velázquez studied, believed that the ultimate goal of painting was to inspire religious devotion within the viewer, bringing them closer to God. This outlook illustrates the reasons for the implementation of realism in religious painting in the first half of the 16th century, and for ...
The painting measures 109 cm × 88 cm (43 in × 35 in). Montañés was called to the Spanish royal court in Madrid in 1635 to make a clay bust of Philip IV of Spain as the modello for the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca to make a bronze equestrian statue of Philip which is now in the Plaza de Oriente in Madrid. The portrait shows the sculptor ...
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.
Velázquez followed the accepted iconography in the 17th century. His master, Francisco Pacheco, a supporter of classicist painting, painted the crucified Christ using the same iconography later adopted by Velázquez: four nails, feet together and supported against a little wooden brace, in a classic contrapposto posture. [1]
The subject of the painting is the waterseller, a common trade for the lower classes in Velázquez's Seville.The jars and victuals recall bodegón paintings. The seller has two customers: a young boy, possibly painted from the same model as used for the boys in The Lunch and Old Woman Cooking Eggs, and a young man in the background shadows, (time has caused him to fade somewhat; he is clearer ...
Francisco Pacheco, painter who taught Diego Velázquez and felt artists' role was to "instill piety and to lead people to God" [407] [408] Antonio Palomino, art writer and biographer who did a fresco for the sacristy of the Granada Charterhouse; became a priest after his wife's death [409] [410]