FRENCH LANGUAGE In the Seville of the Golden Age, a young painter, Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), is captivated by his naturalist talent. At the age of 24, he became the official portraitist of King Philip IV and his family, a position he held for over thirty years. Shaking up the tradition of the court portrait, he knew like no other how to capture an expression or a natural gesture, to capture the intensity of a look, to model the face through the play of light and shadow, to inscribe the body in space. However, he did not shy away from genre painting, historical subjects, landscapes,
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