Thursday, May 24, 2012

Favorite Works of Art - Meninas

This is Las Meninas by Velazquez and it hangs in the Prado in Madrid.  This is not a very good reproduction, but it shows the general painting in some detail.  The artist himself is shown at the easel and seems to be painting the viewer; he is also portayed leaving the painting at the center right.  Meninas means maids in Spanish and here they are attending to the Infanta Princess Margarita, the daughter of Philip IV of Spain, with her entourage of dwarf and dog also in the picture. It is quite a large painting and always seemed to draw people to it when I was there.

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