Remembering Diego Velázquez on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Self-portrait, c. 1645 "He gave the best of his talents to painting portraits, which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint." - Everett Fahey - ThreadSky

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dean.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Remembering Diego Velázquez on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Self-portrait, c. 1645

"He gave the best of his talents to painting portraits, which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly effortless handling of sensuous paint."
- Everett Fahey

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dean.bsky.social•12 days ago

On Diego Velázquez's birthday, read online or download this 1989 publication from the Metropolitan Museum.

https://metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Velazquez

dean.bsky.social•12 days ago

Looking at 'Venus at Her Mirror' by Diego Velázquez, National Gallery
📷 Michael Ward, 1981

dean.bsky.social•12 days ago

Visitors reading a sign outside the National Gallery, after it closed following the March 10, 1914 suffragette attack on Diego Velazquez's Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. Seven slashes in the painting were repaired by the National Gallery's chief restorer Helmut Ruhemann.

dean.bsky.social•12 days ago

"Today is Velazquez's birthday. I always keep it in my heart. But I speak no more of my vanished dreams. We spayed 68 heifers this morning. It took from six o'clock until eleven of hard work."
- Wyoming artist/rancher Fra Dana
Self-portrait, c. 1909

I'll tell Dana's story on her birthday, July 8.

hywin-artz.bsky.social•12 days ago

Happy birthday! Enjoy your life to the fullest.👇☺️
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Every Day In Every Way U Are Getting Better & Better
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