VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y, Featured Paintings in Detail (1)

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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yLas Meninas or The Family of Philip IV1656-57Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cmMuseo del Prado, Madrid

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yLas Meninas or The Family of Philip IV (detail)1656-57Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cmMuseo del Prado, Madrid

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yLas Meninas or The Family of Philip IV (detail)1656-57Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cmMuseo del Prado, MadridDiego Velázquez. Self-portrait,detail of Las Meninas.









VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta Margaritac. 1654Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta Margarita (detail)c. 1654Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 100 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna





VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfante Felipe Prósperoc. 1660Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfante Felipe Próspero (detail)c. 1660Oil on canvas, 128,5 x 99,5 cmKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna





VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta María Teresa1651-52Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta María Teresa (detail)1651-52Oil on canvas, 34,3 x 40 cmMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York




VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yQueen Doña Mariana of Austria1652-53Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cmMuseo del Prado, Madrid

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yQueen Doña Mariana of Austria (detail)1652-53Oil on canvas, 231 x 131 cmMuseo del Prado, Madrid






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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yQueen 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.

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta 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.

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfanta 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.

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yInfante 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.

VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva yLas 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.

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.

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