The Museo Nacional del Prado is shining a long-overdue spotlight on one of the most influential yet often overlooked women in European art history: Queen Isabel de Farnesio. Today, photography is, ...
On March 10, 1914, a woman entered the National Gallery in London, strode up to Diego Velázquez’s Venus at her Toilet, (ca. 1647–51) and began hacking at the masterpiece with a meat cleaver. The woman ...
Diego Velázquez’ 1656 painting Las Meninas has long been considered one of the most important pieces of Western art. Depicting a scene in the Spanish court during the reign of King Philip IV, the ...
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Why Is Velázquez's Las Meninas So Important?
Diego Velázquez's 1656 portrayal of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of the most important paintings in Western art history, if not the most conceptually complex by an old master. A ...
Reporting from San Diego — Think of Spain’s Golden Age, and the paintings produced in Seville and Madrid in the 17th century by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez can crowd out everything else that ...
The painting is making its West Coast debut at the Norton Simon Museum, on loan from the Prado. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Queen Mariana of Austria (1652 ...
Spaniard Diego Velázquez (1599 –1660) is coming to Pasadena, CA’s Norton Simon Museum December 13, 2024, through March 24, 2025, with a special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
For over a year, climate activists in Britain have performed stunts in museums to draw attention to their cause. They’ve often damaged frames, and now appear to have damaged a painting, too. By Alex ...
Readers respond to the rapidly developing events in the Middle East. Also: The virtues of coal; three hours with Velázquez. Un reportero pasó 180 minutos de “atención inmersiva” con la famosa pintura ...
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