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The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) [2] depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. [3] The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s. [4] The veil gives the appearance of being translucent, but is carved of marble.
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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.
The prado ("meadow") that was where the museum now stands gave its name to the area, the Salón del Prado (later Paseo del Prado), and to the museum itself upon nationalisation. Work on the building stopped at the conclusion of Charles III's reign and throughout the Peninsular War and was only initiated again during the reign of Charles III's ...
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The Veiled Rebecca is an example of the neoclassical naturalist style, popular during the 19th century. [13] The Veiled Lady, or Rebecca shows how Antonio Canova's and other Neoclassical sculptors' work had an influence on Benzoni as well as how well-versed he was in earlier eighteenth-century sculptural style. As Boström noted, veiled figures ...
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The statue was an idea of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. [1] The statue was cast at Masriera & Campins' foundry in Barcelona, [1] using bronze gifted by the Spanish State. [2] Modelled by Aniceto Marinas, the statue features a seated Velázquez, with his palette and brush at rest. [3]