At first glance, Diego Velázquez's 1656 painting Las Meninas might seem like just another ensemble portrait. But then, your eye snags on some curious detail. Soon you can't look away, locked into ...
For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. Credit... Supported by By ...
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Born in Seville in 1599, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was the very embodiment of Spain's artistic golden age. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY As a teenage art student at Madrid’s Royal ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For those of us who are not art historians, it comes as a sobering surprise to learn, in reading of the life of ...
Perched in a quiet corner of central Kuala Lumpur’s new behemoth The Exchange TRX mall is Las Meninas. The Spanish restaurant is awash in bright, festive hues and has a lively bar area that segues ...
The 17th-century portrait Las Meninas (1656), or “The Maids of Honor,” is universally regarded as Diego Velázquez’s magnum opus, and perhaps the single greatest existing expression of classical ...
In 1984, after a conversation between then-prime minister of Spain Felipe González and Javier Solana, who was the culture minister at the time, permission was granted to restore Diego Velázquez’s 1656 ...
Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th ...
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