Velázquez, el poder y el arte

One of the constants in Velázquez's life was the search for the favor of power: first in his native Seville, frequenting the power centers and later in court, where at the service of King Felipe IV he learned that the painter's glory depended on the contact depended With the powerful. But why this obsession in becoming a nobleman? Was his painting an end or an instrument? And above all: Why did he hide his personal life?