Velazquez

Overview

The National Gallery in London houses one of the world's greatest collections of works by the seventeenth-century painter Diego Velázquez. In this film Leah Kharibian investigates his paintings, both those in the Gallery and elsewhere, and attempts to explain this Spanish master's almost universal popularity. Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599, and studied there before being called to Madrid and the court of King Philip IV in 1623. Through this majestic work Kharibian surveys Velázquez's entire career, explaining how he came to make one of the great masterpieces of European painting.