Abstract
New documents found in the Vatican Secret Archive concerning the shipment from Madrid to Rome of certain portraits painted by Velazquez for Cardinal Francesco Barberini are presented here. Among them is a preparatory drawing for a portrait of the Conde Duque de Olivares, to be painted according to the express indications left by the Cardinal and his secretary Cassiano del Pozzo in Madrid, in 1626. Also examined is the pontificial brief granted Velazquez in that year thanks to Barberini's intervention with the Pope, by which the painter could enjoy an ecclesiastical benefice even though he was a married layman with children. All of this information demonstrates the Conde Duque's interest in promoting the painter's career, the extraordinarily favorable treatment that the Sevillian received during his first years at the Alcazar, and his well-known slowness when it came time to paint, which —surprisingly— already manifested itself during this early period in the service of Felipe IV.
Highlights
Conte d'Olivares riusciva d'aria maliconica e severa, si contento che venisse, e in una mez'hora o poco più lo fece assai bene»^ Con estas conocidas palabras, Cassiano dal Pozzo expresaba su preferencia por el pintor Juan van der Hamen sobre Diego Velazquez, a la hora de hacer un retrato de su señor, el cardenal Francesco Barberini, cuando en 1626 ambos se encontraban en Madrid en misión extraordinaria ante Felipe IV
Se presenta nueva documentación encontrada en el Archivo Secreto Vaticano sobre el envío —desde Madrid a Roma— de algunos retratos realizados por Velazquez para el cardenal Francisco Barberini
New documents found in the Vatican Secret Archive concerning the shipment from Madrid to Rome of certain portraits painted by Velazquez for Cardinal Francesco Barberini are presented here
Summary
Conte d'Olivares riusciva d'aria maliconica e severa, si contento che venisse, e in una mez'hora o poco più lo fece assai bene»^ Con estas conocidas palabras, Cassiano dal Pozzo expresaba su preferencia por el pintor Juan van der Hamen sobre Diego Velazquez, a la hora de hacer un retrato de su señor, el cardenal Francesco Barberini, cuando en 1626 ambos se encontraban en Madrid en misión extraordinaria ante Felipe IV.
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