Portrait of the Jester Calabazas (Q3220568)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
Diego Velázquez (Q297)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
Cook collection (Q74149551)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
Doughty House (Q5301115)
location of final assembly:
Spain (Q29)
exhibition history:
Velázquez (Q24237549)
depicts:
man (Q8441)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID:
00075480
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
2AGOwUNftmwKFg
catalog URL: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1965.15
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Calabazas, a jester in the court of King Philip IV of Spain, had physical and mental disabilities, a state that the artist emphasizes, rather than tries to hide. While the Spanish court prized and doted upon people with disabilities such as Calabazas, Velázquez transformed their depiction in portraiture. This startling work uses the format of the formal, full-length court portrait to present a type of person who was generally perceived as marginal at this point in history and profoundly humanizes him.
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