Francisco Pacheco
Spanish artist
Died when: 80 years 24 days (960 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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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 , 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.
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