La Cofradia de la Conquistadora-Our Lady of Peace celebrates the icons with Crown & Cloth — The Sacred Style of Our Lady.

Santa Barbara is a city dotted with barrel-tiled roofs and permeated with a sense of Spanish culture, also making it the ...

Alongside her husband, British designer Charles Frederick Worth, Marie Vernet revolutionized the fashion industry.

Central to the composition is the five-year-old Infanta Margarita Teresa, surrounded by her two ladies-in-waiting (las meninas), two dwarves and, of course, a dog. One could say it is a family ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a case that could decide the ownership of a French impressionist painting that was once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman.

Exhibitions of Spanish Art, exhibition catalogue, London 1895, p. 32, cat. no. 130 (as Velázquez); W. Armstrong, The Art of Velázquez, A Study of his Life and Art, London 1896, p. 9, reproduced (as ...

For those of us who are not art historians, it comes as a sobering surprise to learn, in reading of the life of Diego Velázquez, that well into the opening decades of the 17th century, painters ...

When the artist set to work, she had recently born the king a child — the Infanta Margarita, who would later become a central figure in “ Las Meninas,” Velázquez’s greatest painting.

A museum exhibition shows that Salvador Dalí was inspired by artists in the Western tradition, including Albrecht Dürer and Diego Velázquez.

It is the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That is why Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado Museum ...

Acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville discusses the haunting gaze of paintings at Spain's Prado Museum, revealing his artistic inspirations and thoughts on the relationship between art and life.