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.

A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you ...

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 ...

Though she had been promised as a child to Philip IV’s son, her cousin Baltasar Carlos, the prince’s premature death from smallpox in 1646 left Mariana in Vienna and the Hapsburg Spanish king ...

When English-born conservator John Brealey was tapped to treat Diego Velázquez's ... MAY 15: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour), 1656, by Diego Velazquez (1599 ... King Philip IV’s ...

The Norton Simon Museum presents “Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen” from the Museo Nacional del Prado. On view from ...

Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — ...

View Portrait of King Philip IV of Spain, full-length, in black costume with a crown on a draped table beside him by Diego Velázquez on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Diego Velázquez ...

Though she had been promised as a child to Philip IV’s son, her cousin Baltasar Carlos, the prince’s premature death from smallpox in 1646 left Mariana in Vienna and the Hapsburg Spanish king ...