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Description: | In a terraced garden sloping down to woodland on the right, the silhouette of two figures, one male, one female, can be seen, standing at a scalloped fountain on which is posed a colossal statue of Samson and the Lion by the Florentine Cristoforo Stati (1556-1619). It is known that the court painter Velázquez himself painted views of the newly created garden of Buen Retiro, near Madrid, but this garden can most convincingly be identified as Quinta del Prior, belonging to the Duke of Lerma, Prime Minister of King Phillip III, Madrid. | Subjects: | Quinta del Prior) or landscape; buildings and gardens (garden of Buen Retiro | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Spanish School Æ School of Velázquez, Diego (Spanish painter, 1599-1660) Attributed to Mazo, Juan Bautista Martínez del (Spanish painter, 1612-1667) and pupils | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8761... | Go to resource |
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