Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Diego Velasquez
Standard Name: Velasquez, Diego
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Dorothy Bussy | DB
, who later became known for translating much of Gide
's fiction, first reached print with her translation of Auguste Bréal
's Velasquez. |
| Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | While the Bodleian Library
copy is perfect, the copy at the University of Alberta
has been misprinted in such a way as to shuffle early pages out of sequence. The title-page, list of contents, two... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Betham-Edwards | She describes here her journey, with a female friend (actually Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
), to Spain with the particular purpose of seeing the works of Velasquez
, and on to North Africa, in the... |
Timeline
10 March 1914: A suffragist, Mary Richardson, slashed the...
Building item
10 March 1914
A suffragist, Mary Richardson
, slashed the Rokeby Venus (the only known female nude by Velasquez
, which shows Venus admiring herself in a mirror) in the National Gallery, London.
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