Example sentences for: velázquez

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

  • The beguiling town of Trinidad, the third of Diego Velázquez’s original seven settlements, subsequently became rich through the smuggling, slave, and sugar trades.

  • 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.)

  • Modern black sweaters and black leather jackets, black tuxedoes and all degrees of black décolletage are ultimately descended from those great examples, offered by Titian, Velázquez, Rembrandt, et al.

  • After the museum opened in 1963, Picasso added sketches and paintings from his childhood and youth, as well as the famous 44 variations on the theme of Las Meninas, the Velázquez masterpiece in Madrid’s Prado Museum.

  • On the west side of the plaza is the seriously handsome Casa Diego Velázquez, built in 1516 as the residence of the founder of Cuba’s original seven villas.


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