I, Juan de Pareja Chapter 5

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I, Juan de ParejaChapter 5

• A look at the artists and the art mentioned in
  this chapter

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Velazquez, Lady with a Fan, 1635Elizabeth
Borton de Treviño, author of I, Juan de Pareja,
suggests that this might be Paquita with the
little red flower.  She would have been 16 in
1635.
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Diego Velazquez

• Juans master
• He is chosen to be the court painter for King
  Philip IV
• He paints honestly
• Art should be Truth and Truth unadorned,
  unsentimentalized, is Beauty. p. 63
• Art is Truth, and to serve Art, I will never
  deceive. p. 63

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Philip IV in Armour Oil on canvas.
http//www.abcgallery.com/V/velazquez/velazquez21.
html
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Peter Paul Rubens

• Many claimed that he was the best painter in all
  of Europe during his lifetime
• Rubens was known for his flesh tones and nude
  paintings
• The Spanish did not use nude models to pose for
  painters
• He came to visit the King of Spain
• Diego Velazquez was told to show him around

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Self Portrait
http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/rubens
.selfportrait.jpg
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St. George Slaying the Dragon
Pen with brown ink and brown wash
http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/dragon
.jpg
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Return of the Peasants from the Fields Oil on
panel
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens/rubens_p
easants.jpg.html
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• Chapter ?

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http//artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2009/06/am-i-not-
man-and-brother.html

• Painted by Velasquez in 1650.

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• Artist Diego Velázquez Year 1656 Type Oil on
  canvas Dimensions 318 cm  276 cm (125.2 in
   108.7 in) Location Museo del Prado, Madrid