I, Juan De Pareja
Elizabeth Borton Trevino
Hardcover
(Farrar Straus Giroux, Aug. 16, 1966)
When the great Velaquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his Negro slave, Juan de Pareja. In this vibrant novel that depicts both the beauty and the cruelty of the time and place, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino tells the story of Juan, who was born a slave and died an accomplished and respected artist.
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