Diego Velázquez, Juan de Pareja


 

Julie Mehretu on Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja (1650). “Looking at his expression I’m moved, almost to tears. That’s not often that a painting can do that.”

 


Additional resources:

Velázquez, Juan de Pareja at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Velázquez on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Portraiture in Renaissance and Baroque Europe on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Cite this page as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Diego Velázquez, Juan de Pareja," in Smarthistory, October 8, 2016, accessed March 18, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/velazquez-juan-de-pareja/.