Left, Salvador Dalí, Velázquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory (1958), and, right, Velázquez’s Infanta Maria Theresa. Photo: Museum of Fine Arts ...

He’s been called a master realist, the first postmodernist, history’s greatest portraitist. In the words of French artist Edouard Manet, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was “le peintre ...

Diego Velázquez's 1656 portrayal of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of the most important paintings in Western art history, if not the most conceptually complex by an old master.

The painting was originally more-or-less square, but its flanks were cut down to eliminate the worst damage for an early-eighteenth-century fire: the current dimensions are ten feet high and nine ...

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 ...

A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.

Spanish women preferred three-piece dresses made of stiffened fabric, the extremely wide skirt with farthingale undergarment, high-necked bodices, wigs, and theatrical makeup. Nowhere is the ...

His paintings in Madrid include Self portrait by Diego VelazquezOne of the leading lights of his time, Spanish painter Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 6, 1599-August 6, 1660), was a ...

Item 1 of 5 Venezuelan artist Antonio Azzato stands next to one of the sculptures that is part of the "Meninas Caracas Gallery" street exhibit, which plays homage to Spanish artist Diego Velazquez ...

A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.