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Francisco Pacheco
Spanish painter and teacher (1564-1644) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Francisco Pacheco (disambiguation).
Francisco Pacheco del Río (bap. 3 November 1564 – 27 November 1644) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Cano, and for his textbook on painting, entitled Art of Painting, that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. He is described by some as the "Vasari of Seville": vocal and didactic about his theories of painting and thoughts about painters, conventional and uninspired in his executions.[1]
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pacheco and the second or maternal family name is del Río.
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