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.

Is a painting in storage at Yale University Art Gallery an early work by Diego Velazquez?

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 ...

On March 10, 1914, a woman entered the National Gallery in London, strode up to Diego Velázquez’s Venus at her Toilet, (ca. 1647–51) and began hacking at the masterpiece with a meat cleaver.

When the suffragist Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery in London with a concealed hatchet in March 1914, she headed for the “Rokeby Venus,” one of Diego Velázquez’s most ...

The most recent attack on the painting is the work of Just Stop Oil, a British climate activist group, in response to the British government’s plans to grant over 100 new oil and gas licenses in ...

See one of the great portraits of the 17th century: Diego Velázquez's painting of DUKE FRANCESCO I D'ESTE at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is the first time the painting has traveled to ...