A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you think you're looking at?

The Yale painting, Marciari believes, “is not a picture that will ever come up for sale.” In Spain, where public attention was far more pronounced, the painting is invaluable in other terms.

Prince Baltasar Carlos on Horseback, by the workshop of Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), is on loan to The Spanish Gallery, in Bishop Auckland, from the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The painting depicts ...

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 ...

Velázquez moved to Madrid in 1622, and immediately secured a place at the court of King Philip IV, with free lodgings and a monthly salary, as well as being paid separately for individual pictures.

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.

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

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Expulsion of the Moriscos, by Velázquez, was destroyed in a 1734 fire, but now artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo has used A.I. to recreate it.

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painter Diego Velázquez depicting Queen Isabel appears to have vanished for a second time after being mysteriously withdrawn from an upcoming auction.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 ...

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.