The Great Artists series consists of 100 albums of world painting. On the pages of books - biographies of artists, the main milestones of creativity, their role in world culture. Each album has about 50 illustrations. The next album of the collection is dedicated to the largest representative of the Spanish Baroque Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez (1599-1660). Surpassing contemporary Spanish artists not only with a creative range, but also with the courage and novelty of artistic decisions, Velazquez painted paintings on genre, mythological, historical, religious subjects, portraits, landscapes. A man of high moral nobility, he was called by his contemporaries the "artist of Truth."