El Greco, Pietà (detail), 1574-1576. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of The Hispanic Society of America, New York

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It’s impossible to separate the work of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) from his relationship with King Philip IV. Philip wrote letters of introduction so that Velázquez could go to study painting in Italy, which had no small part in developing his sense of color, composition and........

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