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2023-04-15 22:36:39
The exhibition of Juan de Pareja, an Afro-Hispanic painter from Málaga, inaugurated on April 3 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has revealed to the common Spaniards not only his important pictorial work but also his status as a student, assistant and black slave of Velazquez. What has brought me to this Memorandum is the almost contemporary story of Couple of another slave genius, black and Spanish, in this case poet and grammarian: Juan Latino.
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