by Eduardo Chamorro · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408001546
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«La cruz de Santiago» is the historical novel by Eduardo Chamorro, published by Planeta in hardback (285 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Diego Velázquez from his youth in Seville to his time as painter and courtier at the court of Philip IV. It recreates seventeenth-century Spain with settings such as the Seville Arenal, the Alcázar of Madrid and the Rome of Innocent X, and figures such as master Pacheco, Juana (the painter's wife), the Count-Duke of Olivares and Rubens.
Published in 1992 and a finalist for the Planeta Prize, it belongs to Planeta's Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Velázquez, artistic creation and the seventeenth-century court.
