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World Service,15 Jul 1993,8 mins

Diego de Velazquez

Artists in a Nutshell

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The life and work of Phillip IV of Spain's favourite painter. "Velazquez took forever over his pictures, his seeming spontaneity was the result of hours of standing in front of a canvas, pondering, leaving and coming back again - he was such a man of opposites!" says art critic Louisa Buck.

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