A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you ...

Alleged mishandling of significant paintings and drawings underscores the need for more transparency—particularly when it ...

In this article we will make a deep dive into the art depicting cardinals, bishops and popes throughout the centuries.

This style was echoed by painter Diego Velázquez (a century later ... Cadaver Synod, by French artist Jean Paul Laurens, was vastly different from what many papal art pieces looked like. This painting ...

monasteries and churches with Italian art. This desire was born of the then undisputed centrality of cities such as Rome, Florence and Venice as repositories of classical style and form. Local Spanish ...

This was painted in about 1628 in connection with an altarpiece for a great Spanish collector, Don Diego Messía Felipe de Guzmán ... It was helped by a touching inscription by Palmer’s son. Young at ...

Until a few years ago, Kitchen Maid (around 1620)—labelled “in the style of Diego Velázquez”—hung ... last June at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where it was part of the exhibition ...

The cathedral’s spectacular altar — real gold on wood, by Flemish, French and local artists — is one of the country’s best pieces of Gothic art. The complex composition shows the story of ...

Diego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria” (1652-53), a monumental portrait of the daughter of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif ...

696-697, 701 (as a replica or later variant); Velázquez y lo velazqueño, Catalogo de la exposición homenaje a Diego de ... C.B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo, London 1883, p. 89, cat. no. 229dd (as ...

Spaniard Diego Velázquez (1599 –1660 ... Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel.

Seville, the capital and largest city of Andalusia, wears its role in Spain’s art history proudly—though much of that fame rests on the shoulders of Diego Velázquez, and rightly so.