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An art genre popular in this country includes a painting of a quince (“kwince”) and cabbage suspended from a string. A Baroque artist from this country depicted a peasant boy with a clubfoot smiling. A still life genre from this country depicting food items (-5[1])includes (10[2])urban scenes of a woman cooking eggs and a waterseller. (10[1])After the death (10[1])of an artist from this (-5[1])country, a red cross was added to his chest in a painting (10[1])in which a man stands on a lit staircase. (10[1])An artist from this country featured mirrors in the Rokeby Venus and another painting in which several attendants and a dog surround the Infanta Margarita. (10[3])For 10 points, name this country home to the artist of Las Meninas, (10[1])Diego Velázquez. ■END■ (10[2])

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