#juan bautista martínez del mazo

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Spanish, 1612-1667) Cacería del tabladillo en Aranjuez, ca.1640 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo. María Teresa (1638–1683), Infanta of Spain. 1645. Oil on canvas.

Mazo was Velázquez’s assistant and son-in-law, having married his daughter Francisca in 1633. María Teresa, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and his first queen, Isabel de Borbón, was portrayed by Mazo when she was seven years old. In 1660 the Infanta married her cousin Louis XIV and became Queen of France. Another portrait of her, by Velázquez, is also in the Museum’s collection. Mazo reused a canvas for this portrait; a group of putti from the previous work is visible through the red curtain.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Portrait of a Girl by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.

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A imperatriz Margarida de Austria de loito, por Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo

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Juan de Pareja (c. 1606 – 1670) was a Spanish painter, born enslaved in Antequera, Spain to a woman of African descent and a native Spanish man. He was employed by the celebrated artist Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. He traveled with Velázquez to Italy and was exposed to the works of other leading artists of his era such as Titian, Veronese, and Correggio.

He was a free person. Before he arrived in Madrid he passed the examination to be designated a painter in Seville, a profession from which enslaved were legally banned. In a letter dated May 12, 1630, from him to a high official in Seville, he requested permission to continue studying his craft in Madrid accompanied by his brother, Jusepe, not Velázquez. He was the free, loyal assistant of Velázquez until the latter died in 1660. The last decade of his life was spent in the employ of Velázquez’s daughter, Francisca de Silva Velázquez y Pacheco, working as an assistant to her husband, the noted portrait and landscape painter Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.

His undisputed masterpiece is “The Calling of St. Matthew,” housed at the Prado Museum in Madrid. Expertly done, in some respects it is reminiscent not only of certain works of Velázquez but those of the great Italian and Dutch masters. Proud of his best effort, he inserted himself opposite Jesus standing at the left edge of the painting holding a slip of paper that reads “Juan de Pareja in the year 1661.” Like his mentor, he too excelled in portraiture, the prime example being his portrait of the architect José Ratés Dalmau.

Revered as one of the premier Spanish Baroque painters. His legacy continues to this day. The popular children’s novel I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth B. de Treviño, based partly on often repeated myths about the artist, won the American Library Association’s Newbery Award in 1966. Five years later in 1971, Velázquez’s portrait of him was purchased by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for an estimated $6 million. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Dogs in Paintings #2

from Queen Mariana of Spain in Mourning by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo at The National Gallery

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo: Kaiserin Margarita Teresa im Trauergewand, 1666 nach dem Tode ihres Vaters Philipps IV. (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

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Luis del Mazo. Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (c.1612-1667)

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1665 Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo - María Teresa Fajardo de Requesens y Zúñiga, Duchess of Montalto, Grandee of Spain

(Lower Saxony State Museum )

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Un estanque del Buen Retiro (detail)

by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Toledan, 1612 - 1667) oil on canvas, 1657

Museo de Historia de Madrid

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Spanish, c.1612-1667) Portrait of the Infanta

In an interior, which receives its only illumination from a high-lying window with slug panes, a girl in a red dress interwoven with gold, with a fine lace collar and a red bow in her hair, stands next to a repoussoir curtain. On a table next to her is a small dog, also adorned with a red bow.

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Maria Teresa, Infanta of Spain

Mazo was Velázquez’s most gifted assistant and his son-in-law, having married his daughter Francisca in 1633. María Teresa, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain and his first queen, Isabel de Borbón, was portrayed by Mazo when she was seven years old. In 1660 the Infanta married her cousin Louis XIV and became Queen of France. Another portrait of her, by Velázquez, is also in the Museum’s collection. Mazo reused a canvas for this portrait; a group of putti from the previous work is visible through the red curtain.

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (c. 1611–1667) Margarita Teresa of Spain (1651–1673) in Mourning Dress 1665–1666

Oil on canvas 205 x 144 cm

Museo del Prado, Madrid

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Felipe IV a Caballo. Por Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.

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Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo: Retrato dunha muller da corte española (Marquesa dos Vélez), 1655-60