A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.

Art World Art Bites: Why Conservation of Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ Caused a Nationwide Uproar. Spaniards argued that only a native could truly understand the pinnacle of Spanish art.

Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), was part of a broader backlash against the perfectionism of Renaissance art, which began with the revival of the classical aesthetics a millennium after the fall ...

The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime. ... or ‘meninas’, from which the painting gets its ...

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 ...

Art has always had the power to provoke and inspire, ... and Picasso was so fascinated with Las Meninas, he painted 58 versions of it. The Death of Marat, 1793, Jacques-Louis David ...

Secondly, The Cube got in contact with Spain’s Ministry of Culture, who told us that no such plans to remove Las Meninas are in place. It said the claim is indeed a hoax and is "absolutely false".

Some social media users are claiming that the Prado Museum in Madrid is removing the world-famous piece of art for being a hate crime against people with restricted growth, known as dwarfism in ...

The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime.

Video. The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime.