![]() ![]() Trevino did an excellent job of portraying life in the Spanish court as well as shedding light on the life of an artist. ![]() This Newberry Medal winner from 1966 is an excellent historical fiction exploring the life of Don Diego de Velasquez, the renowned 17th century Spanish painter, and his long-time assistant, Juan de Pareja. "I read this excellent book with my 10-yr-old son. ![]() Self-taught by watching his master's technique, he is torn between the need to keep his secret, for such work as the creation of art is forbidden to slaves, and the desire to reveal his own talents. His assistant is an African slave, Juan, who, by helping his master in his studio in the preparation of paints and stretching of canvasses, becomes an artist himself. In the era of Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyke, Spain had its own great painter: Diego Velasquez. ![]()
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