# St Ildefonso Receiving the Chasuble from the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 166 x 120 cm ## Commentary St Ildefonso Receiving the Chasuble from the Virgin c. 1620 Oil on canvas, 166 x 120 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville Velázquez took up ideas from earlier models that struck him as important and worth studying. In religious compositions such as the painting St Ildefonso Receiving the Chasuble from the Virgin, the spiritual ascetics portrayed by El Greco may well have been such models. With remarkable self-confidence, however, Velázquez always transformed the ideas he adopted into his own inimitable style. Its increasing artistic delicacy, his sure touch in exploring the depths of his subject, and a fine sense of composition show the presence of genius beneath the surface of the young artist still learning his craft. ## Related artworks - [A White Horse]() - [A Young Man \(detail\)]() - [Abbess Jerónima de la Fuente]() - [Aesop]() - [Arachne]() - [Breakfast]() - [Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés]() - [Democritus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()