Siglo De Oro, Spains Golden Age

El Greco's painting

Diego Velazquez's painting

Painters

El Greco

He studied the renaissance in Italy before coming to Spain.
El Greco made haunting religious pictures, stricking portraits of Spanish nobels using vibrant colors.

Diego Velazquez

Diego was the court painter of King Philip the third and is best known for his Spanish royalty paintings.
He was inspired by El Greco's use of vibrant colors.

Writers

The golden century in Spain produced amazing writers like :

Miguel de Cervantes wrote the first modern novel in Europe.

Lope de Vega, a born peasant, wrote more than 1500 plays.