Hi, I'm Father Mark Mary with Franciscan Friars of the renewal, and this is the Rosary in a Year podcast,

where through prayer and meditation, the rosary brings us deeper into relationship with Jesus and Mary

and becomes a source of grace for the whole world.

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This is Day 148.

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meditating upon and praying with the fifth glorious mystery, the coronation

of Mary's queen of heaven and earth with help from the painting entitled The Coronation of the Virgin

by the artist Diego Velasquez.

A brief introduction to our artist and artwork for today. The artist Diego Velasquez was born in the year 1599. He died in the year 1660 and he was one of Spain's greatest painters and a leading artist of the Baroque period. Born as Deville, he began his artistic training at age 12

as an apprentice. Velascus became a court painter to King Philip the fourth of Spain in the year 1623,

a position he held for the rest of his life, and he developed a unique style characterized by a loose,

expressive brushwork and massful use of light and color.

The coronation of the Virgin, the painting we're looking at today, was done in the year 1645.

In its style, it is of Baroque style, characterized by dramatic realism and emotional intensity dynamic use of light and shadow,

which is called kuroskoro and rich of vibrant colors,

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