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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the ... Velázquez was born in 1599 in Seville in southern Spain, at that time an important city with a thriving artistic community. At the age of eleven, Velázquez was ... Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, the most admired—perhaps the greatest —European painter who ever lived, possessed a miraculous gift for conveying a  ...