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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 ...
Las Meninas. Las Meninas is a series of 58 paintings that Pablo Picasso painted in 1957 by performing a comprehensive analysis, reinterpreting and recreating several times Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez. The suite is fully preserved at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona and is the only complete series of the artist that remains together.
Dimensions. 280 cm × 336 cm (110 in × 132 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Charles IV of Spain and His Family is an oil-on-canvas group portrait painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. He began work on the painting in 1800, shortly after he became First Chamber Painter to the royal family, and completed it in the summer of 1801.
Max Beckmann was a prolific painter of self-portraits [26] as was Edvard Munch who made great numbers of self-portrait paintings (70), prints (20) and drawings or watercolours (over 100) throughout his life, many showing him being badly treated by life, and especially by women. [27]
Juan de Valdés Leal: In ictu oculi, one of the Four last things of Man, 1672, oil on canvas, 220 × 216 cm, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville. Spanish Baroque painting refers to the style of painting which developed in Spain throughout the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. [1] The style appeared in early 17th century paintings ...
Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions. The art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th century. The indigenous cultures each developed ...
Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress is one of the best-known portraits by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Executed in oil on canvas, it measures 127 cm high by 107 cm wide and was one of Velázquez's last paintings, produced in 1659, a year before his death. It shows Margaret Theresa of Spain who also appears in the artist's Las Meninas.
The very informal Las Meninas show the artist painting the King and Queen Mariana, with their daughter watching. Adoration of the Magi by Rubens. Velázquez was twice given permission to visit Italy, in 1629-30 and 1649-51. On the second visit he was used as a agent of the King to buy art, which he did on a large scale, with excellent judgement.