3. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
4. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
5. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Diego Velázquez. Self-portrait,detail of Las
6. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
7. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
8. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
9. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
10. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
11. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
12. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
13. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
(detail)
1656-57
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
14.
15. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
16. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita (detail)
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
17. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita (detail)
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
18. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita (detail)
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
19. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita (detail)
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
20. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita (detail)
c. 1654
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
21.
22. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
23. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero (detail)
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
24. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero (detail)
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
25. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero (detail)
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
26. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero (detail)
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
27. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero (detail)
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
28.
29. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
30. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
31. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
32. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
33. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa (detail)
1651-52
Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
34.
35. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
36. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
37. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
38. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
39. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
40. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
41. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)
1652-53
Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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43. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Queen Doña Mariana of Austria
Velázquez stayed in Rome in 1649-50. Philip IV wanted his favourite court painter, now enjoying such a triumph in Rome, to paint his
second wife, Queen Mariana, and to give his advice on the renovation of the old royal palace in Madrid, the Alcázar. Consequently, he
wished Velázquez to come back to court as soon as possible, but none the less the artist delayed his return for another whole year.
The portrait of Queen Mariana required by the king was not completed until 1653. The queen was the daughter of Emperor Ferdinand
III and Philip's sister the Infanta Maria, and had married her widowed uncle in 1649. She was nineteen at the time of this portrait,
which shows her full length, wearing a black dress with silver braid, and of course adorned with much valuable jewellery: gold
necklaces and bracelets, and a large gold brooch on her close-fitting bodice. Her right hand rests on the back of a chair, and she
holds a delicate lace scarf in her left hand. The picture is bathed in harmonious shades of black and red, although the dramatically
drawn curtain has been painted over by another hand.
The composition turns on the focal point of the queen's alabaster skin and rouged face, small and almost doll-like under her hair,
which is dressed very wide. Her bust, tightly encased in the bodice, her stiff farthingale and all her fashionable magnificence are
rendered true to life by Velázquez, and at the same time he reveals them as a theatrical show concealing the girl's natural physical
nature beneath the armour of courtly constraint.
44. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta María Teresa
María Teresa was the daughter of Philip IV and his first wife Isabel de Bourbon. Her portrait is a routine work
from the late period of Velázquez.
45. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infanta Margarita
At the end of the 1640s Velázquez was on the threshold to his late work and the peak of his artistic achievement, to
which his likenesses of the Spanish Habsburgs, not least, made a considerable contribution.
They are among the finest examples of court portraiture ever painted. This picture represents Infanta Margarita, born on
12 July 1651, daughter of Philip IV and his second wife, Mariana. The Infanta is the central figure of Velázquez's famous
composition, Las Meninas, painted three years later.
46. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Infante Felipe Próspero
The young prince was a sickly child from birth, and he died at the age of four. He appears in this picture in a pink dress trimmed with
silver, with a translucent pinafore over it, and bearing some striking accessories: various amulets were supposed to protect him against
the evil eye, and an amber apple was thought to ward off infections.
The bloodless face of the blue-eyed prince looks even paler due to the contrast with the silver highlights in his straw-coloured fair hair.
Pale daylight falls in through the open door in the background. Otherwise, the room is full of shadows that seem to threaten the little
figure.
Palomino considered this portrait one of the finest ever painted by Velázquez, and singled out the little dog on the chair for special
praise.
47. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV
Las Meninas or The Royal Family is the most famous of Velázquez's paintings, his undisputed masterpiece, described by the
Neapolitan painter Luca Giordano as the "theology of painting".
It is set in a room in the Alcázar, equipped by Velázquez as a studio, and shows the heiress to the throne, the Infanta Margarita, with
her court. The queen's maid of honour, Dona Maria Agustina Sarmiento is kneeling at the Infanta's feet, handing her a jug of water.
The other maid of honour, Dona Isabel de Velasco stands behind the princess, and beside her we see the grotesquely misshapen
female dwarf Mari-Bárbola and the male dwarf Nicolasico Pertusato. Further back are a guard to the ladies and the lady in waiting
Dońa Marcela de Ulloa.
Velázquez is standing with brush and palette in front of a tall canvas. The princess's parents, the king and queen, appear in a dark
frame, probably the glass of a mirror. To the right of the mirror, on a flight of steps, stands Jose Nieto, the queen's palace marshal.
48. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized on June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660) was
a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most
important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.
He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a
portrait artist. In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural
significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable
European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece
Las Meninas (1656).
From the first quarter of the nineteenth century, Velázquez's artwork was a model for
the realist and impressionist painters, in particular Édouard Manet. Since that time,
famous modern artists, including Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon,
have paid tribute to Velázquez by recreating several of his most famous works.