Velazquez

Las Meninas or The Ladies-in-waiting, 1656 Velazquez Painting

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Las Meninas or ‘The Ladies-in-waiting’ 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid Las Meninas is one of the most original and revolutionary works in art history. When Diego Velรกzquez began to paint this painting in 1655, he did not do it thinking of the public exhibition that he has today, but for private contemplation and delight. The work was intended for the private summer office of King Felipe IV of Spain, in the old Alcazar of Madrid.   …

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Prado Museum – Spain

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Guido Reni, an Exhibition at the Prado Museum Guido Reni This ambitious exhibition, sponsored exclusively by the BBVA Foundation, includes almost a hundred works from more than 40 museums, institutions and public and private collections in Europe and America to offer a complete vision of the career of this great Bolognese artist of the seventeenth century and draw attention to its decisive contribution to the configuration of the aesthetic universe of the European Baroque. Visitors to this exhibition, which has …

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