Where can you see Diego Velázquez in Barcelona?

At the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya: Saint Paul. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Diego Velázquez's most famous work in Barcelona?

Saint Paul, of about 1619, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. The apostle as a weathered old man in a brown cloak, holding a book, lit hard against a dark ground, in the manner of his Seville years.

When and where was Diego Velázquez born?

In June 1599, at Seville, Spain. Diego Velázquez died on 6 August 1660, at Madrid, Spain, aged about 61.

What is Diego Velázquez known for?

Painter to King Philip IV of Spain. Painted Las Meninas. Painted Pope Innocent X in Rome in 1650. Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter, of the Baroque.

Painter, 1599 to 1660

Diego Velázquez

Before Madrid, Velázquez was a young painter in Seville, painting saints from the faces of the men around him. The Saint Paul in the MNAC, of about 1619, is one of them, heavy and plain, with none of the court about it.

Born: 1599, Seville, Spain
Died: 1660, Madrid, Spain
Movement: Baroque
In Barcelona: 1 work in 1 museum

Where to see Diego Velázquez in Barcelona

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya1 work

Saint Paul
about 1619
The apostle as a weathered old man in a brown cloak, holding a book, lit hard against a dark ground, in the manner of his Seville years.

The life of Diego Velázquez

Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599 and at twenty-four became painter to King Philip IV of Spain, whom he served for the rest of his life. Las Meninas, painted in 1656, is in the Prado.

He travelled to Italy twice, in 1629 and again from 1649 to 1651, to buy pictures and antiquities for the king. On the second journey he painted Pope Innocent X in Rome. He died in Madrid in 1660.

What to know

Painter to King Philip IV of Spain
Painted Las Meninas
Painted Pope Innocent X in Rome in 1650

Born: June 1599, Seville, Spain
Died: 6 August 1660, Madrid, Spain