Monumento a Velazquez

Terrific portrait in bronze

A heroic artist in the city of his birth, it’s unsurprising that he is honoured with a great monument. It shows the young artist in attire of the times and holding his palette and brushes. It was ina...

A statue

Monumento a Velazquez is situated in the Plaza del Duque de La Victoria, in a busy part of the city. The square itself is not one of the better ones in Seville. At least in our estimation it is too c...

Monumento a Velazquez

I became aware of the great Spanish artist Velazquez in my past visits to Spain. Of course as I was staying at a hotel that celebrated Spanish artists and it has floor that had copies of his painti...

A son of Seville

To be honest I’ve never heard of this painter born in Seville (1599-1660) but more modern day artists including Picasso and Dali have paid tribute to him in some of their works. He was a leading arti...

Unremarkable

The statue of the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez can be found in the Plazza Mayor. We only stumbled across it whilst waiting for our hop on bus city tour. Nothing remarkable about the statue