Spanish Baroque Art
Diego Velázquez Adoration of the Magi (1619, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain) The painting is a family portrait. Velázquez can be identified as Caspar, the elderly Melchior as his teacher and father-in-law, the painter Francisco Pacheco, and the Virgin as his wife Juana, while the Christ Child looks like the painter’s new-born daughter, Francisca. 

Diego Velázquez

Adoration of the Magi (1619, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain)

The painting is a family portrait. Velázquez can be identified as Caspar, the elderly Melchior as his teacher and father-in-law, the painter Francisco Pacheco, and the Virgin as his wife Juana, while the Christ Child looks like the painter’s new-born daughter, Francisca. 
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