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 ...

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44.

49.5 x 41.5 cm. (19.5 x 16.3 in.) The canvas is lined and the paint surface is stable. The entire surface is covered by a thin layer of modern varnish which is clear. There appears the be the remains ...

Diego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria” (1652-53), a monumental portrait of the daughter of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif ...

Diego Velázquez, Philip III ... In the painting, the Spanish king Philip III issues his order to expel the Moriscos. Eighteen years later, in 1627, the king’s son, King Philip IV, challenged ...

Giles Knox, Associate Professor of Art History, Indiana University Bloomington examines the development of Velázquez’s signature brushwork, as well as the possible role played by King Philip IV ...

The 1623 painting of Isabel hung for years at the Buen Retiro royal palace in Madrid, side-by-side with Velázquez’s famed Philip IV in Black (1623), now located at the Museo del Prado.

A masterpiece by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez depicting Queen Isabel appears to have vanished for a second time after being mysteriously withdrawn from an upcoming auction. The full-length portrait ...

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 ...

The canvas usually hangs in a gallery dominated by Velázquez’s magisterial “Las Meninas” (1656), in which Mariana can be glimpsed, along with her spouse, Philip IV of Spain, in the ...