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?

A flood of associations involving the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez came to mind—images Marciari knew from his academic work, museum pilgrimages and classes he had taught in early ...

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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This December, famed Spanish artist Diego Velázquez’s Queen Mariana of Austria (1652–53) will be on view at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California for the first time in over 30 years.

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Velázquez himself, King Philip IV’s court painter, is regarded as the leading artist of Spain’s 17th- and 18th-century Baroque style. He completed the painting just four years before his death.

Fashionable politics by Leann Davis Alspaugh On Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder. Recently, thirteen bronze sculptures appeared in Venice, ...

In 1656, King Philip IV of Spain commissioned a portrait by Diego Velázquez, his longtime court artist. It’s a plain, dark portrait.