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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 Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition ...
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.
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. The portrait features life-sized depictions of Charles IV ...
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 ...
1634–35. Type. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 307 cm × 367 cm (121 in × 144 in) Location. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. La rendición de Breda (English: The Surrender of Breda, also known as Las lanzas – The Lances) is a painting by the Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez. It was completed during the years 1634–35, inspired by ...
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656–57. Museo del Prado. Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808. Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.
José Nieto Velázquez was the King's Chamberlain (Felipe IV of Spain), [2] during the 1650s, and he was also in charge of the royal tapestry works. He is also the figure in the doorway in Diego Velázquez 's painting Las Meninas and was the brother of the artist. [1] Although the focus of Las Meninas is highly debated, the vanishing point of ...
The work of Diego Velázquez in general, and Las Meninas in particular, influenced Sargent's composition. [5] [6] [8] 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]