In the early 1650s he gave Velázquez the Pieza Principal (" main room ") of the late Baltasar Carlos's living quarters, by then serving as the palace museum, to use as his studio.

With him came as an invited passenger by suggestion of the by then 52 years old notorious painter Peter Paul Rubens, in Madrid to Philip IV, the already notorious around 30 years old royal painter Diego Velázquez, who went with him to see famous paintings in Genoa, Milan, Venice and Rome.

Velázquez was a professor, first at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao from 1976 to 1981, and then at New York's Hunter College from 1981 until 1983.

Velázquez and the CTM then proceeded, with the help of the state, to eliminate independent union leaders in industrial unions such as the miners ', petroleum workers ' and railroad workers ' unions.

These were the Sleeping Ariadne now in the Pitti Palace, but then in Rome, of which Velázquez ordered a cast for the Royal collection in 1650 – 51, and the Borghese Hermaphroditus, a sleeping hermaphrodite ( picture to the right above ), now in the Louvre, of which a cast was sent to Madrid, and which also emphasises the curve from hip to waist.

Velázquez then revoked Cortés ' right to lead the expedition and soon after sent an army led by Pánfilo de Narvaez to take Cortés into custody.

Francisca tried to simulate an attack by cutting her own throat and then blaming the murders on her neighbor Pedro Ramón Velázquez.

He was distinguished by being relative of the then Governor of Cuba Diego Velázquez, but overall served Hernán Cortés and the cause of the Conquest.

At the request of Pacheco, Velázquez painted the portrait of the famous poet Luis de Góngora.

Velázquez painted Góngora crowned with a laurel wreath, but painted over it at some unknown later date.

Through the bust portrait of the king, painted in 1623, Velázquez secured admission to the royal service, with a salary of 20 ducats per month, besides medical attendance, lodgings and payment for the pictures he might paint.

His impassive, saturnine face is familiar to us from the many portraits painted by Velázquez.

Besides the forty portraits of Philip by Velázquez, he painted portraits of other members of the royal family: Philip's first wife, Elisabeth of Bourbon, and her children, especially her eldest son, Don Baltasar Carlos, of whom there is a beautiful full-length in a private room at Buckingham Palace.

Velázquez also painted several buffoons and dwarfs in Philip's court, often with respect and sympathetically, as in The Favorite ( 1644 ), whose intelligent face and huge folio with ink-bottle and pen by his side show him to be a wiser and better-educated man than many of the gallants of the court.

In 1650 in Rome Velázquez also painted a portrait of Juan de Pareja, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA.

Elisabeth of France had died in 1644, and the king had married Mariana of Austria, whom Velázquez now painted in many attitudes.

Philip IV at the height of his success, painted c. 1631-2 by Diego Velázquez.

An older Philip IV, painted in 1656 by Diego Velázquez.

* El Cristo de Velázquez ( The Christ of Velázquez ) ( 1920 ) — a religious work, divided into four parts, where Unamuno analyzes the figure of Christ from different perspectives: as a symbol of sacrifice and redemption, as a reflection on his Biblical names ( Christ the myth, Christ the man on the cross, Christ, God, Christ the Eucharist ), as poetic meaning, as painted by Diego Velázquez, etc.

Velázquez painted portraits of Mariana and her children, and although Philip himself resisted being portrayed in his old age he did allow Velázquez to include him in Las Meninas.

Las Meninas contains the only known double portrait of the royal couple painted by Velázquez.

Detail showing the red cross of the Order of Santiago painted on the breast of Velázquez.

In a series of portraits of the late 1630s and 1640s — all now in the Prado — Velázquez painted clowns and other members of the royal household posing as gods, heroes, and philosophers ; the intention is certainly partly comic, at least for those in the know, but in a highly ambiguous way.

The 19th-century British art collector William John Bankes travelled to Spain during the Peninsular War ( 1808 – 1814 ) and acquired a copy of Las Meninas painted by Mazo, which he believed to be an original preparatory oil sketch by Velázquez — although Velázquez did not usually paint studies.

Several experts, including the former Curator of the Department of Renaissance and Baroque Painting in the Museo del Prado and current Director of the Moll Institute of Studies of Flemish Paintings, in Madrid, Professor Matías Díaz Padrón, suggest that this " could be a model " painted by Velázquez before the completed work which hangs in the Prado Museum, perhaps to be approved by the king.

Image: Velazquez-The Surrenderof Breda. jpg | The Surrender of Breda by Velázquez, painted by order of King Philip IV of Spain, 1635, five years after the loyal Ambrosio Spínola died as Governor of Milan.

He would be painted however after his death, by Diego Velázquez, in 1635, as ordered by Felipe IV, in the famous picture " The Surrender of Breda ", visited by tens of millions of tourists at the Museum of Prado in Madrid for the last two centuries or so.

In 1511, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar set out from Hispaniola to form the first Spanish settlement in Cuba, with orders from Spain to conquer the island.

He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.

Born in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Diego, the first child of João Rodrigues da Silva and Jerónima Velázquez, was baptized at the church of St Peter in Seville on Sunday, June 6, 1599.

Velázquez went to Madrid in the first half of April 1622, with letters of introduction to Don Juan de Fonseca, himself from Seville, who was chaplain to the King.

Altogether, this production may be taken as the most advanced example of the first style of Velázquez.

It is canonical to divide the artistic career of Velázquez by his two visits to Italy, with his second grouping of works following the first visit and his third grouping following the second visit.

In these portraits, Velázquez has well repaid the debt of gratitude that he owed to his first patron, whom Velázquez stood by during Olivares's fall from power, thus exposing himself to the great risk of the anger of the jealous Philip.

The Museum has prints from his first series, The Paintings of Velázquez, and from later ones such as The Caprichos, The Disasters of War, The Tauromaquia and The Disparates.

After first landing Guanahani island on The Bahamas, Columbus found the Isla Juana ( named later Cuba ) In 1511, the first Spanish settlement was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar at Baracoa ; other towns soon followed including San Cristobal de la Habana which was founded in 1515.

The 1st Adelantado of Cuba Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar was appointed governor of Cuba island, time after he had pacified first Hispaniola island, under Governor of Hispaniola Nicolás de Ovando, and later Cuba in 1511 under orders from Viceroy Diego Columbus.

It also includes works by Duccio, Fra Angelico, Mantegna, El Greco, Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Guercino, La Tour, Poussin, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Boucher, Gainsborough, Vigée-Lebrun, Friedrich ( the first painting by the artist acquired by a public collection outside of Europe ), Cézanne, Monet, Caillebotte, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso.

Built along with its artificial pond in 1887 by architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco for the Philippine Islands Exhibitions, it was first used to display flower species indigenous to the islands.

Velázquez became the first woman to chair the United States House Committee on Small Business in January 2007 as well as the first Hispanic woman to chair a House standing committee.

In 1992, Velázquez defeated incumbent congressman Stephen J. Solarz in the primary and was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, representing New York's 12th congressional district, and became the first female Puerto Rican member of Congress.

The Office of Legislative Services was headed in early 2009 by Kevin Rivera, while Eliezer Velázquez currently serves as Superintendent of the Capitol, the first to serve during two four-year terms.

According to his account, the Indians captured in the Battle of Catoche, Julian and Melchior, in their first conversations with the Spanish in Cuba, at which Diego Velázquez was present, had spoken of bread ( Spanish: " pan ").

* Incumbent Superintendent of the Capitol, Eliezer Velázquez, was nominated by Rivera Schatz and ratified by House Speaker Jennifer González for a second term, a first for a Superintendent.

Puebla's first goal was scored by Lupe Velázquez in the 68th minute.

Those unions nearly walked out of the CTM twice in its early years, however — the first time at the founding convention of the CTM in 1936, when Lombardo Toledano chose Velázquez, rather than the individual from their wing who had been promised the position, as organizational secretary of the new organization and a second time the following year.