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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.
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.
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
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 ...
As it is said: Las Meninas has long been recognised as one of the most important paintings in Western art history. True. Las Meninas” (1656) by Diego Velázquez is the masterpiece of Spanish painting, and one of the most important paintings in the world. And all serious art books say exactly the same...
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)
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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.