I, Juan de Pareja

I, Juan de Pareja: The Story of a Great Painter and the Slave He Helped Become a Great Artist.  

When the great Vel zquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan de Pareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Trevi o tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.

ISBN: 9780312380052