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A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you ...
Expulsion of the Moriscos, by Velázquez, was destroyed in a 1734 fire, but now artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo has used A.I. to recreate it. ... Diego Velázquez, Philip III (1627).
Spaniard Diego Velázquez (1599 –1660) is coming to Pasadena, CA’s Norton Simon Museum December 13, 2024, through March 24, 2025, with a special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in ...
Diego Velázquez (Rodriguez de Silva y) was the most famous Spanish artist of his time. He was born in Seville in 1599 and died in 1660. After early successes such as “The Water Carrier of ...
The status and meaning of this painting of a court jester has been argued over for centuries. ... Diego Velázquez (b. 1599). At the Cleveland Museum of Art. Great Works, In Focus.
Two climate change protesters were arrested Monday after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velazquez oil painting at London's National Gallery, police said Monday. The ...
Two climate change protesters have been arrested after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery.
The auction record for 17th-century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, famed for his royal portraits, could more than double early next year when Sotheby’s offers his painting Isabel de Borbón ...
Spanish police are investigating four people for fraud after they allegedly tried to sell forged paintings for more than €76 million ($84 million), falsely claiming they were works by the ...
A photo released by the British climate activist group Just Stop Oil showed two of its members hitting the glass protecting the “Rokeby Venus,” a painting by Diego Velázquez.
“The Toilet of Venus” bears a surprising number of battle scars for a painting. On Nov. 6, the London National Gallery’s famous painting suffered its second attack from social activists.
Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja has been a showstopper since it first left the artist’s makeshift studio in Rome in 1650. When it made its public debut, in the Pantheon, this ...