Example sentences for: velázquez

How can you use “velázquez” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Velázquez and his followers enslaved the native peoples and in the process exposed them to European diseases.

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • Works such as Raphael’s Bridgewater Madonna, a Rembrandt Self-Portrait, and Velázquez’s Old Woman Cooking Eggs are only three from a collection that includes pieces by Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Constable, Turner, and Vermeer.

  • That Baracoa was the first settlement to be established by Diego Velázquez in 1511 — making it the oldest colonial city in the Americas — is not in doubt.

  • In 1511 Diego de Velázquez sailed from neighboring Hispaniola with some 300 conquistadores (conquerors).


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