Unit 7 - Biographies

VELÁZQUEZ

Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter. He was born on June 6^th 1599. He was born in Andalusia. His parents names were Juan and Jerónima. His parents were Spanish, but his grandparents were from Portugal. He was married to Juana Pacheco and they had two children. A lot of his paintings were religious but his most important works are La rendición de Breda, Las meninas or Las hilanderas. These paintings were not religious.He was very famous in Spain, Italy and all Europe because he was the painter of kings and popes. He died in 1660.

SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was an English writer. He was born in1564. He was born in Stratford Upon Avon. His parents' names were John and Mary. His father was a butcher and a glove maker. Shakespeare was a good student at school and studied Grammar, Latin and Literature. When he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway. She was 26 when they married and they had a daughter and two sons. Their sons were twins. His first job was actor, but he loved writing poems and plays too. Some of his plays were very popular and others weren’t, but he was a famous writer. He wrote comedies, historical plays and tragedies, but he wrote lots of poems too. His most famous works were Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth. He died in 1616.