Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter and the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. He is also considered as the main painter of the 17th century along with Rembrandt van Rijn. Velázquez painted several portraits of famous people in the 17th century, including the Spanish royal family and Pope Innocent X. His masterpiece, Las Meninas is an enormous painting made in 1656, it depicts a large room in the Madrid palace of King Philip IV of Spain.