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Art historians believe portrait likely 17th century artist Diego Velazquezs first of Spanish king |
| September 17th, 2012 01:37:44 am |
DALLAS (AP).- In preparing an exhibit on 17th century artist Diego Velazquez's early work for Spain's King Philip IV, art historians believe they discovered that a portrait by the Spanish master at Dallas' Meadows Museum is likely his first of his lifelong patron. "Diego Velazquez: The Early Court Portraits" opens Sunday at the museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University, the result of a partnership between the Meadows and Madrid's famed Museo del Prado, Spain's national art museum. The exhibit, which the Meadows calls the most important devoted to Velazquez in the U.S. in more than two decades, will run through Jan. 13. "What you'll see in this exhibition is the beginning of one of the most extraordinary relationships in the history of art — that's the relationship between young |
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