Diego Velázquez

:This article pertains to the artist. For the conquistador who invaded Cuba in 1511, see Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.

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Conquistador - Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar

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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June, 1599 – August 6, 1660), commonly referred to as Diego Velázquez, was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait artist. His two visits to Italy while part of the Spanish court are well-documented. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he created scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece, Las Meninas (1656).

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June - 1599 - August 6 - 1660 - Spanish - Painter - Philip IV - Baroque - Italy - Las Meninas

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Starting in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Velázquez's artwork proved a model for the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet. Since that time, more modern artists, including Spain's Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating several of his most famous works.

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born in San Fransisco, the home of Rice A Roni. He invented the Cotton Gin and influenced the economy with his pornographic pictures. Once, he even had a sexual tape leaked to the media of him and the skank Paris Hilton. Paris wasnt shocked and admited to the press that everything had happened. Meanwhile back in Spain his wifey Juana divorced him and kept the barn and the children they had out of wedlock. One of his children wasnt even his, it was the mail man's whom Juana often had sexual intercourse with when he went to work. It all happened one day when the mail man had dropped a piece of mail on the ground and Juana bent over to pick it up for him, revealing her tight pink pussy under her tight ass skirt.

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