今天的Google logo又变了，2008年6月6号，是什么日子呢？
Google查询了一下，原来西班牙著名画家委拉斯贵支(Diego Velázquez)的生日，关于这个画家，咱们来一起了解一下吧：
委拉斯贵支(June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660)是西班牙的巴洛克式画家，也是西班牙具有贵族威严的绘画巨匠。他出生在塞维利亚，从小就喜欢画画，他的父亲也很能理解他的这份天才，于是就把他送到了画家帕奇邱的门下。到了帕奇邱门下以后的委拉斯贵支不久就和他老师19岁的女儿结婚了。1622年，委拉斯贵支亚以到了马德里。当时19岁的腓力四世和25岁的委拉斯贵支之间有着极亲密的交往，腓力四世每天到委拉斯贵支的画室来观赏。因此委拉斯贵支就乘机为腓力四世画像，在他一生的画作中腓力四世肖像占了大多数。在此期间，鲁本斯作为外交官赴西班牙，很欣赏委拉斯贵支的才能，劝其去意大利学习深造。于是他在29岁那年去了艺术之都意大利。他到了意大利，在威尼斯研究了意大利的绘画。他的宫廷肖像画严谨而精彩，而且充满感情。
今天的Google logo 是委拉斯贵支的名画“宫娥”（Las Meninas (1656, English: The Maids of Honour)）中的场景，大图如下：
Velázquez (or Velásquez), Diego (1599-1660). Spain’s greatest painter was also one of the supreme artists of all time. A master of technique, highly individual in style, Diego Velasquez may have had a greater influence on European art than any other painter.
Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez was born in Seville, Spain, presumably shortly before his baptism on June 6, 1599. His father was of noble Portuguese descent. In his teens he studied art with Francisco Pacheco, whose daughter he married. The young Velasquez once declared, “I would rather be the first painter of common things than second in higher art.” He learned much from studying nature. After his marriage at the age of 19, Velasquez went to Madrid. When he was 24 he painted a portrait of Philip IV, who became his patron.
The artist made two visits to Italy. On his first, in 1629, he copied masterpieces in Venice and Rome. He returned to Italy 20 years later and bought many paintings–by Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese–and statuary for the king’s collection.
Except for these journeys Velasquez lived in Madrid as court painter. His paintings include landscapes, mythological and religious subjects, and scenes from common life, called genre pictures. Most of them, however, are portraits of court notables that rank with the portraits painted by Titian and Anthony Van Dyck.
Duties of Velasquez’ royal offices also occupied his time. He was eventually made marshal of the royal household, and as such he was responsible for the royal quarters and for planning ceremonies.
In 1660 Velasquez had charge of his last and greatest ceremony–the wedding of the Infanta Maria Theresa to Louis XIV of France. This was a most elaborate affair. Worn out from these labors, Velasquez contracted a fever from which he died on August 6.
Velasquez was called the “noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country.” He was a master realist, and no painter has surpassed him in the ability to seize essential features and fix them on canvas with a few broad, sure strokes. “His men and women seem to breathe,” it has been said; “his horses are full of action and his dogs of life.”
Because of Velasquez’ great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as “the painter’s painter.” Ever since he taught Bartolomé Murillo, Velasquez has directly or indirectly led painters to make original contributions to the development of art. Others who have been noticeably influenced by him are Francisco de Goya, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, and James McNeill Whistler. His famous paintings include The Surrender of Breda, an equestrian portrait of Philip IV, The Spinners, The Maids of Honor, Pope Innocent X, Christ at Emmaus, and a portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa.
okyle 我的日记 Diego Velázquez, google, logo
然后10天就这么过来了。没有大喜大悲，平凡的近乎枯燥。
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