Joselito Velázquez Altamirano (born 30 September 1993 in Santo Domingo Zanatepec) is a Mexican professional boxer. As an amateur, he won gold medals at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games, and represented Mexico at the 2016 Olympics. [2 ]
Jorge Hernández (November 17, 1954 – December 12, 2019) born in Havana was a boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.
Edgar Velásquez (born 3 April 1974 in Tucupita) is a retired boxer from Venezuela. He competed in the men's light flyweight (– 48 kg) division during the early 1990s. [1 ]
Valencia competed both in London 2012 and in Rio 2016. In London, at the age of 17, she lost the 1/16 eliminations in the individual competition, [4 ] while Mexico was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the women's team competition against…
Diego Velazquez, the most important Spanish painter of the 17th century, universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest artists. The naturalistic style in which he was trained provided a language for the expression of his…
Why is Diego Velázquez important?Diego Velázquez was one of the most important Spanish painters of the 17th century, a giant of Western art. He had a keen eye and a prodigious facility with the brush. His works often show strong modeling and sharp contrasts of light, resembling the dramatic lighting technique called tenebrism.What is Diego Velázquez famous for?As Philip IV’s court painter, Diego Velázquez painted many royal portraits, notably Las meninas (1656). Yet he was also known for popularizing the bodegón, or kitchen scene, in such early works as An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618). Other famous pieces include his portraits of Pope Innocent X (c. 1650) and Juan de Pareja (1650).What was Diego Velázquez’s family like?Diego Velázquez was the eldest child of João Rodrigues da Silva, a lawyer, and Jerónima Velázquez. Toward the end of his apprenticeship with Francisco Pacheco, Velázquez married his master’s daughter, Juana. They had two daughters.