Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez · 1656
The story
Las Meninas is a 1656 oil painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. It has become one of the most widely analysed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted.
- Artist
- Diego Velázquez
- Date
- 1656
- Collection
- Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- Movement
- Baroque
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 318 × 276 cm
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