The Surrender of Breda,
aka The Lances, this work was finished no later than 1635 for the Hall of
Ios Reinos in the Buen Retiro Palace. It depicts a historical event
that occurred on June 5th 1625 in the Dutch city of Breda, during the war in
Flanders. In the centre of the scene, the governor of the city, Justino de
Naassau, symbolizes its surrender by handing over the keys to General
Ambrosio de Spinola, who is trying to stop the defeated kneeling and thus
avoid his humiliation. On the left of the painting are the Dutch, and
on the right the Spanish with their pikes, often confused with lances and
thus giving the other name to the work. This painting is currently in
the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque painter, was born in Seville in 1599. At
the age of eleven he began his apprenticeship in the studio of Francisco
Pacheco, leaving in 1617 as Master painter.
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