Portrait of the court jester Barbarossa (Barbarroja). Diego Velázquez
1635, oil on canvas, 198 × 121 cm
Madrid, Museo del Prado
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Porträt des Hofnarren Barbarossa (Barbarroja). Diego Velázquez
1635, Öl auf Leinwand, 198 × 121 cm
Madrid, Museo del Prado
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The Jester Barbarroja (El bufón Barbarroja) is an oil on canvas portrait by Diego Velázquez of Cristóbal de Castañeda y Pernia, nicknamed Barbarroja in his role as a jester at the court of Philip IV of Spain from 1633 to 1649. The painting is now in the Museo del Prado; it was in the Palacio del Buen Retiro in Madrid in 1701 and from 1816 to 1827 it was in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
Drawings after Velázquez, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
The composition's subject also served Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, for whom he played Barbarroja (the Turkish pirate defeated by Don John of Austria at the Battle of Lepanto[dubious – discuss]) in comic plays. He was later banished from the court, to Seville, by the Duke of Olivares for a reply he gave the king when asked whether there were olives in the Segovian town of Balsain - to this, the jester punningly replied "Sir, neither olives nor Olivares".
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Bibliography
Museo del Prado. Pintura española de los siglos XVI y XVII. Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. Aguilar S.A. 1964
