Diego Valentín Díaz (died 1660) was a Spanish historical painter and a familiar of the

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. He was a native of

Valladolid Valladolid ( ; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and ''de facto'' capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the pr ...

. Díaz painted many important pictures for churches and monasteries, especially for the former Church of San Benito (now a barrack), and the convents of St. Jerome and of St. Francis, of which the ''Jubilee of the Porciuncula'' in the latter house was one of the most esteemed. His ''Holy Family'', painted for San Benito, is now in the National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid; what is considered his best work is an

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of the ''Annunciation of the Virgin,'' painted for the Hospital for Orphan Girls he had founded at Valladolid. The architecture and perspective are in the finest style, and the statues introduced are admirably executed. Díaz died at Valladolid in 1660. He accumulated considerable wealth, the greater part of which he left for the support of this hospital, at which site he was buried, and where are preserved the portraits of the munificent artist and of his wife – "he a grey-haired sharp old man, she a dark-eyed dame." Diego valentin diaz-florero

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* Year of birth unknown 1660 deaths 17th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters People from Valladolid {{Spain-painter-stub