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blastedheath: spanishbaroqueart: Diego Velázquez Portrait of the poet Francisco de Rioja (1622-23) Francisco de Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral, librarian of King Philip IV of Spain and a member of the Supreme Inquisition. His poems are considered the first attempts at descriptive poetry in the Spanish language. The style is original, the thoughts beautifully expressed, the taste refined, and the versification well adapted and harmoniously blended with the theme. Rioja’s “Ode to Summer”, and those “To Tranquillity”, “To Constancy,” “To Riches” and “To Poverty” are, after the lyrics of Fray Luis de León, the best moral odes of the Spanish poetical treasure.

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Diego Velázquez

Portrait of the poet Francisco de Rioja (1622-23)

Francisco de Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral, librarian of King Philip IV of Spain and a member of the Supreme Inquisition. His poems are considered the first attempts at descriptive poetry in the Spanish language. The style is original, the thoughts beautifully expressed, the taste refined, and the versification well adapted and harmoniously blended with the theme. Rioja’s “Ode to Summer”, and those “To Tranquillity”, “To Constancy,” “To Riches” and “To Poverty” are, after the lyrics of Fray Luis de León, the best moral odes of the Spanish poetical treasure.
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#Velázquez  #male artist  #spanish  #baroque  #1600s 
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