The Museo del Prado’s thematic routes are intended to encourage a new way of looking at the Museum. To achieve this, the Prado requests the collaboration of professionals from outside the institution ...

A masterpiece by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez depicting Queen Isabel ... auction of works by Old Masters without explanation. The painting is no longer advertised on Sotheby’s website ...

Over 1,000 paintings were salvaged from the fire, according to El País’ Miguel Ángel García Vega. Among them was Las Meninas (1656), the Baroque masterpiece by Diego Velázquez, considered ...

The huge 17th-century painting shows the Infanta Margarita, her young ladies-in-waiting, a dwarf, a buffoon with a dog, a nun ...

For Irish novelist John Banville, the captivating eyes in the paintings at Spain's Prado Museum offer an intense connection ...

Diego Velázquez's The Toilet of Venus ... 1 December after conservation treatment to minor damage sustained to the painting surface, and the fitting of new glazing. We are delighted to have ...

The pictures, they look at you,” Banville says, turning away from the glare of Diego Velázquez, looking down from Las Meninas ...