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.

King Philip IV was a lifelong patron of 17 th century artist Diego Velazquez, and the Spanish painter often painted the monarch. And while the new exhibit that opened yesterday at the Meadows ...

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 ...

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 ...

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599. He would go on to become the leading artist of the Spanisg Golden Age in the court of King Philip IV, where he painted his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Philip’s appearance will shock many in the art world who had ...

However, Spanish courtiers still collected these pictures avidly, largely from abroad—and Velázquez, as the court painter of King Philip IV, was afforded certain liberties.

This double portrait by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) ... One of the little people is Baltasar Carlos, the 2-year-old son of King Philip IV of Spain and his wife, Isabella of Bourbon.

In 1973, a 1624 image of Philip IV was found to have been made by Velázquez’s studio, not the artist. A reassessment has reversed that conclusion.

A 17th Century painting of the Spanish monarch Philip IV by Diego Velázquez is being reinstated to its rightful place in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting was wrongly identified ...

A full-length portrait painted by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez of Queen Isabel de Borbón, the wife of Spain’s King Philip IV, is expected to fetch $35 million when it heads to auction at ...

In preparing an exhibit on 17th century artist Diego Velazquez's early work for Spain's King Philip IV, art historians believe they discovered that a portrait by the Spanish master at Dallas ...