A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you ...

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid. The figures depicted in the painting are many. Then five-year old Infanta Margaret Teresa stands surrounded by her retinue, ...

SPAIN - MAY 15: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour), 1656, by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), oil on canvas, 318x276 cm. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images); Madrid, Museo Del Prado. (Photo by ...

In his honor, the king commanded the order's insignia be added to the chest of Velázquez's Las Meninas figure. Some historians even claim it was the king himself who painted on this final touch. 10.

Diego Velazquez, born in Seville, was appointed a court painter as a young man in Madrid in 1624, ... The painting also depicts two maids of honor waiting on Margarita, ...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599. He would go on to become the leading artist of the Spanisg Golden Age in the court of King Philip IV, where he painted his ...

It's called Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honour, and it's the greatest masterpiece produced by Diego Velazquez, a 17th century artist who only really seemed to deal in masterpieces.

The masterpiece of The Maids of Honor is reproduced in Shanghai on February 25. Photo: Courtesy of Embassy of Spain in China On February 25, the Spanish Tourism Authority, together with the Prado ...

A flood of associations involving the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez came to mind—images Marciari knew from his academic work, ... [The Maids of Honor].