Francisco Pacheco (1564-1654) was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonso Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain. Events March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 - Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 - The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific Spanish found a colony... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Velázquezs 1643 self-portrait This article pertains to the artist. ...

He was born at Sanlúcar de Barrameda and moved to Seville at a young age. He was a student of Luis Fernandez, and did much of his learning by copying works of the Italian masters. He visited Madrid and Toledo in 1611, studying the work of El Greco, then returned to Seville and opened an art school. Sanlúcar de Barrameda is a Spanish city in the northwestern part of the Cadiz province. ... Seville (Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, crossed by the river Guadalquivir (37° 22′ 38″ N 5° 59′ 13″ W). ... Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ... The façade of Toledo cathedral Toledo is a city located in central Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. ... Events November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeares romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time. ... Baptism of Christ, painted 1596–1600 El Greco (medieval Castilian for the Greek) is the name by which Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος Domênikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – April 7, 1614), a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish school, is best known. ...

Pacheco's school emphasized the academically correct representation of religious subjects, not least because he was the official censor of Seville's Inquisition. His own work reflects those constraints; paintings such as the Last Judgment (convent of Santa Isabel) and Martyrs of Granada are monumental in scale but unimaginative in treatment. Pedro Berruguete. ...

Although Velázquez was a student in Pacheco's school for six years, and married Pacheco's daughter Juana in 1618, there is no trace of Pacheco's influence in the work of Velázquez.

In addition to material on iconography and technique, Pacheco's Arte de la pintura includes valuable biographical information on Spanish painters of the time. Salvator Mundi is an iconography depicting Christ with his right hand raised in blessing and his left hand holding an orb. ...

Reference

• Priscilla E. Muller, Francisco Pacheco: His development as a painter (Hispanic Society of America) ASIN B0007H69CO