La legación de Francesco Barberini en España: unos retratos para el cardenal y un breve pontificio para Diego Velázquez, «clerico coniugato»
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Francesco Barberini, Velazquez, Conde Duque de Olivares, Spanish painting, 17th centuryAbstract
New documents found in the Vatican Secret Archive concerning the shipment from Madrid to Rome of certain portraits painted by Velazquez for Cardinal Francesco Barberini are presented here. Among them is a preparatory drawing for a portrait of the Conde Duque de Olivares, to be painted according to the express indications left by the Cardinal and his secretary Cassiano del Pozzo in Madrid, in 1626. Also examined is the pontificial brief granted Velazquez in that year thanks to Barberini's intervention with the Pope, by which the painter could enjoy an ecclesiastical benefice even though he was a married layman with children. All of this information demonstrates the Conde Duque's interest in promoting the painter's career, the extraordinarily favorable treatment that the Sevillian received during his first years at the Alcázar, and his well-known slowness when it came time to paint, which —surprisingly— already manifested itself during this early period in the service of Felipe IV.
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2004-06-30
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Giordano, S., & Salort Pons, S. (2004). La legación de Francesco Barberini en España: unos retratos para el cardenal y un breve pontificio para Diego Velázquez, «clerico coniugato». Archivo Español De Arte, 77(306), 159–170. https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2004.v77.i306.245
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