Curators often rummage through museum storage hoping to find a great painting or just a curiosity overlooked by their predecessors. But it’s not every day that they find a canvas that they ...

Diego Velazquez's portrait of Queen Isabel de Borbón is expected to fetch $35 million at a Sotheby’s auction in February. The work is expected to fetch $35 million when it hits the block at ...

Diego Velázquez (Rodriguez de Silva y) was the most famous Spanish artist of his time. He was born in Seville in 1599 and died in 1660. After early successes such as “The Water Carrier of ...

Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) was a Spanish painter who served as the leading artist in King Philip IV's court. His work, characterized by realistic, detailed portraits and complex compositions ...

Diego Velázquez’s full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain is coming to market in February at Sotheby’s in New York and is expected to sell in the region of US$35 million.

The work remained in his family until 1950, when it appeared at an art auction. The current owners have kept the portrait in their collection for 45 years. This December, it will go on view in the ...

5 Facts You Didn't Know About Spanish Painter Diego Velázquez Published November 12, ... though it is known that Velázquez did not paint the work during his two stays in Italy.

The painting's recent restoration gives testament to the work Museum of Fine Arts Houston does. Even though this one has been with them since the 1950s, a lot of time and precision had to go in to ...

Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas" (1656)—marked by a massive scale, unremitting technical virtuosity and centuries of critical analysis—is a tour-de-force studio painting and one against which ...

Sotheby’s will bring to auction 37 lots, ranging from new discoveries to the best works kept in private hands, in its upcoming Old Master sale in London on July 3. With a presale estimate of ...

Works by Diego Velázquez and Rembrandt van Rijn at the “Rembrandt-Velázquez: Dutch and Spanish Masters” exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. (Olivier Middendorp/Rijksmuseum) AMSTERDAM — It’s a ...