Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez is one of the symbols of the artistic era of his time. He made a brilliant career as a diplomat at the court of the Spanish King Philip IV and became famous as the greatest painter. The artist’s paintings are sincere and “cold”, vital and mysterious, but always amazingly talented, like the life of a brilliant master. Surpassing the Spanish artists of his time not only in creative range, but also in the courage and novelty of artistic solutions, Velazquez painted genre, mythological paintings , historical, religious subjects, portraits, landscapes. A man of high moral nobility, he was called by his contemporaries “the artist of Truth.” Cover: “Infanta Margaret of Austria” by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez.