Francisco Pacheco

Portrait of Francisco Pacheco (1622) by Diego Velázquez
Francisco Pacheco, Lo Judici Final ("The Last Judgment"), Musée Goya, Castres, France.

Francisco Pérez del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644), known by his pseudonym Francisco Pacheco, was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Alonso Cano and Diego Velázquez, as well as the latter's father-in-law. His textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, published posthumously,[1] is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the "Vasari of Seville": vocal and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions.[2]

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  2. ^ Thacher, John S. "The Paintings of Francisco de Herrera, The Elder". The Art Bulletin (1937); page 328.

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