Diego Velázquez

• He lived in the 17th century.
• He represents together with Goya the Spanish Baroque.

• He was born in Seville.
• He learned how to paint with Francisco Herrero el Viejo and Francisco Pacheco.
• He went to Italy in order to learn more about its painting.
• He spent most of his life in Madrid.

He painted more than 120 works, most of them exhibited in The Prado Museum.

He became the court painter of Philip IV and his family.