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The mysterious Las Meninas by Diego Velásquez
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The mysterious Las Meninas by Diego Velásquez

Completed in 1656, Diego Velásquez has created with Las Meninas an incomparable reproduction of space, light, cloth, people, dogs, and himself, all at work on a large canvas. The work is in fact an illusion of the artist creating an illusion. Part of the fascination with this great masterpiece is trying to figure out what [...]

Published by admin on April 30th, 2009 at 12:04 pm