Anecdotes of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects, and curiosities of art (1880)
Spooner, Shearjashub, 1809-1859 · New York, A. W. Lovering · leaf 248
hivalrous qualities, his noble birtii,his riches, his palaces, his orders of knighthood,and what is most rare, the warm, real, steadyfriendship of a king, and added to this a long life,crowned with genius, felicity, and fame, it seems al-most beyond the lot of humanity. I know of no-thing to be… … VELASQUEZ. [Vol. I. 226. SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS. 227 VELASQUEZ HONORED BY THE KING OF SPAIN. Philip IV. relaxed the rigor ot Spanish etiquettein favor of Velasquez, as Charles V. had done withTitian. He had his studio in the royal palace, andthe King kept a jjrivate key, by means of whichhe had…
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