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Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez · 1656
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- Artist
- Diego Velázquez
- Year
- 1656
- Museum
- Museo del Prado
- Movement
- Baroque
- Period
- 17th century
- Style
- Portrait
- Format
- Portrait
Painter to the Spanish court and one of the great masters of Baroque portraiture.
Public domain work · Cleared for print
The story behind it
In this painting, the person being watched may be you.
- Velázquez painted himself at his easel, brush in hand; the huge canvas he is working on is turned away from us.
- King Philip IV and Queen Mariana appear in the mirror on the back wall, so the royal couple may be standing exactly where the viewer stands, where everyone is looking.
- In 1957 Picasso made 58 variations on the painting; they are now in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.
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Same palette
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