spanishbaroqueart: Diego VelázquezAdoration of the Magi, 1619Museo del Prado, Madrid, Sp
spanishbaroqueart: Diego VelázquezAdoration of the Magi, 1619Museo del Prado, Madrid, SpainThe painting is traditionally claimed to be 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. Velázquez had been a master painter for two years and had been married to Juana Pacheco for one when he made this work during his period in Seville. -- source link