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Portrait of Juan de Pareja

Portrait of Juan de Pareja

Painting by Diego Velázquez

Photo: Diego Velázquez · Commons · Public domain · Cropped & Resized

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The Portrait of Juan de Pareja is a painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez of the enslaved Juan de Pareja, a notable painter in his own right, who was owned by Velázquez at the time the painting was completed. Velázquez painted the portrait in Rome, while traveling in Italy, in 1650. It is the earliest known portrait of a Spanish man of moorish descent.

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Image: Diego Velázquez, Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0