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Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour)

Painting, Oil paint, Baroque 

Height 318cm, Width 276cm


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Las Meninas 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 paintin ...
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Diego Velázquez
Spain
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and P ...
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Pieter Paul Rubens Gallery

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Unveiling the Masterful Complexity of Velázquez's "Las Meninas"

"Las Meninas" (The Maids of Honour) by Diego Velázquez is a masterpiece of the Spanish Baroque period, painted in 1656 and housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The painting is celebrated for its complex composition, which blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, and its innovative ex ...
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Unveiling the Masterful Complexity of Velázquez's "Las Meninas"

SUMMARY


"Las Meninas" (The Maids of Honour) by Diego Velázquez is a masterpiece of the Spanish Baroque period, painted in 1656 and housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The painting is celebrated for its complex composition, which blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, and its innovative ex ...
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