Juan de Pareja
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Juan de Pareja
(b Antequera, Seville, c. 1606; d Madrid, c. 1670). Spanish painter. He was of Muslim descent and was first employed by Diego Vel?zquez in his workshop during the 1630s to grind colours and prepare canvases. In 1630 Pareja is recorded as a painter in Seville, when he requested permission from the Procurador Mayor to join his brother in Madrid in order to perfect his art. He accompanied Vel?zquez to Italy in 1649, and while there he posed for Vel?zquez for his portrait, Juan de Pareja (1649-50; New York, Met.), in which the servant-painter is shown with the dark curly hair and dark skin that indicate his origin. Vel?zquez made the portrait, according to Palomino, as an exercise in painting a head from life before he portrayed Pope Innocent X (1649-50; Rome, Pal. Doria-Pamphili).
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Juan de Pareja (1606–1670)[1] was a Spanish painter, born in Antequera, near Málaga, Spain. He is primarily known as a member of the household and workshop of painter Diego Velázquez. His 1661 work The Calling of St. Matthew (sometimes also referred to as The Vocation of St. Matthew) is currently on display at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. De Pareja became Velazquez's assistant sometime after the master returned to Madrid from his first trip to Italy in January 1631. After the death of Velazquez he entered the service of Juan del Mazo.[2]
He was a slave and afterwards a freedman, and was described as a "Morisco", being "of mixed heritage and a strange color".[3] The usage of the word "morisco" at the time carried two possible meanings. It was used to refer to both descendants of Muslims who remained in Spain after the reconquest, and to refer to the offspring of a Spaniard and a mulatto.
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- ^ William Stirling Maxwell (1848). Annals of the artists of Spain, Volume 2. J. Ollivier. http://books.google.com/books?id=_IkZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA884&dq=Stirling-Maxwell,+Annals+of+the+Artists+of+Spain+Volume+3&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Juan%20de%20Pareja&f=false.
- ^ The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. February 1980. p. 50. ISBN 0011-1422. http://books.google.com/books?id=CioEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&dq#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ Palomino, Antonio (1988). El museo pictórico y escala óptica III. El parnaso español pintoresco laureado. Madrid : Aguilar S.A. de Ediciones.
Sources
- Hoving, Thomas (1993). Making the Mummies Dance. Simon and Schuster.
- Palomino, Antonio (1724). El Museo pictórico y escala óptica.
- Borton de Treviño, Elizabeth (1965). I, Juan de Pareja. Bell Books. ASIN B0006BN0A0.
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