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Dimensions. 318 cm × 276 cm (125.2 in × 108.7 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Las Meninas (Spanish for ' The Ladies-in-waiting '[a] pronounced [las meˈninas]) is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Baroque. It has become one of the most widely analyzed works in ...
2-07-022484-8. OCLC. 256703056. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines) is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemic assumptions, ways of thinking, which determine what is truth and what is ...
Lady in Waiting. (novel) Lady in Waiting is a historical novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and first published in 1957. It is set in the Elizabethan era and beginning of the Stuart period of England, telling the life story of Sir Walter Raleigh, primarily through the viewpoint of his wife, Bess Throckmorton. This is the first of Sutcliff's five novels ...
Art historian Barbara Gallati notes that the English translation of Las Meninas, "Maids-in-Waiting", is an apt description for the activity of the Boit children. [9] Carolus-Duran, Sargent's teacher, had encouraged his students to study the work of Velázquez. [10]
Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward and Evelyn Keyes. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Lupino and Hayward were married at the time. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy that starred Flora ...
María is the main character in All Manner of Things —the second novel of Wendy J. Dunn's Falling Pomegranate Seeds duology. 978-0648715221. María is depicted as the drummer of the band in the musical Six, along with three other ladies in waiting of the other queens. She was portrayed by the actress Margaret Ford in the 1970 BBC series The ...
Dimensions. 83.8 cm × 111.8 cm (33 in × 44 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It is held in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring ...
Location. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A Lady Writing a Letter (also known as A Lady Writing) is an oil on canvas painting by the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is believed to have been completed by artist during his mature phase, in the mid-to-late 1660s. The work is in the collection of the National Gallery of ...