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Diego Velázquez
Spanish, born Seville, Spain 1599-died Madrid, Spain 1660
- Also known as
- Diego Rodriguez Velásquez
- Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velásquez
- Diego Velazquez
- Born
- Seville, Spain
- Died
- Madrid, Spain
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Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation "Lessons of the Hour" interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass.
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