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

Giving her Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez will totally blow her mind. To thank his kingly patron, painter Diego Velázquez created a piece in 1656 that depicted the Infanta Margarita with her ...

Author John Banville won the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in 2014, coming face to face with the recently-crowned King Felipe VI. There, an unexpected friendship formed ...

The painting and creation that shot Diego Velazquez to fame, ... It is a painting of the Spanish court life in the 17th century, and shows young Infanta Margarita surrounded by her attendants.

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57.8 x 42.9 cm. (22.8 x 16.9 in.) From whom acquired by Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Baronet and 1st Viscount of Monserrate, 1892, Doughty House, Richmond (as Velázquez); Thence by descent to his ...

And inevitably our eye will be drawn past the ostensible central subject, the five-year-old Infanta Margarita Theresa, to the isolated and enigmatic figure in the open doorway at the back of the room.

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical ...

Banville says Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas ... The huge 17th-century painting shows the Infanta Margarita – or Margaret Theresa of Spain – her young ladies-in-waiting, ...

The pictures, they look at you,” he confides, glancing away from the gaze of Diego Velázquez in his monumental work, Las Meninas. This iconic 17th-century painting, which depicts the Infanta Margarita ...

The huge 17th-century painting shows the Infanta Margarita, her young ladies-in-waiting, a dwarf, a buffoon with a dog, a nun, a mysterious man exiting through a door, a mirror reflecting King ...