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Francisco Goya etched a print of Las Meninas in 1778, [86] and used Velázquez's painting as the model for his Charles IV of Spain and His Family. As in Las Meninas, the royal family in Goya's work is apparently visiting the artist's studio. In both paintings the artist is shown working on a canvas, of which only the rear is visible.
1916: Las Meninas (music by Gabriel Fauré) 1917: The Good-Humoured Ladies (music by Domenico Scarlatti, arr. Vincenzo Tommasini) 1917: Parade (music by Erik Satie) 1919: La Boutique fantasque (music by Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Ottorino Respighi) 1919: The Three-Cornered Hat (music by Manuel de Falla) 1920: Pulcinella (music by Igor Stravinsky)
The painting, echoing Diego Velázquez's 1656 Spanish court painting Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), contains a self-portrait of Botero standing behind a large canvas. The thick, "puffy" presidential family, decked out in fashionable finery and staring blandly out of the canvas, appear socially superior, drawing attention to social inequality ...
In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1460), Juan de Flandes' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1505), Frans Hals' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St. Nicolas (about 1660) and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring ...
Women in the Philippines (Filipino: Kababaihan sa Pilipinas) may also be known as Filipinas or Filipino women. Their role includes the context of Filipino culture , standards, and mindsets. The Philippines is described [ by whom? ] to be a nation of strong women, who directly and indirectly run the family unit, businesses, and government agencies.
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The book Intercolonial Intimacies Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898–1964 by Paula C. Park cites "Forzados y reclutas: los criollos novohispanos en Asia (1756-1808)" gave a higher number of later Mexican soldier-immigrants to the Philippines, pegging the number at 35,000 immigrants in the 1700s, [2] in a Philippine population ...
Las Meninas - Pavane, op. 50 by Gabriel Fauré; Les Sylphides - Prelude, op. 28, no. 7 by Chopin; Carnival of the Animals - The Dying Swan by Saint-Saëns; Tale of the Young Prince - Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov; Sleeping Beauty - Waltz by Tchaikovsky; Midsummernight's Dream - Notturno by Mendelssohn; Excerpt from Act II by Adolphe Adam