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

Samantha Harvey's Orbital has won the 2024 Booker prize . What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of ...

Opened in 1819 at the encouragement of Queen Maria Isabel de Braganza (King ... and Flemish styles of art. Among the most famous works featured include Velazquez's "Las Meninas," Bosch's "The ...

The pictures, they look at you,” he confides, glancing away from the gaze of Diego Velázquez in his monumental work, Las Meninas. This iconic 17th-century painting, which depicts the Infanta Margarita ...

Shaun has a postcard of Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, sent to him by his wife. The painting’s complex composition has been .

The show is situated in the museum’s enchanting terra-cotta arcade, which gives the displayed objects—red velvet pillows, ...

Throughout Orbital, Harvey contrasts two iconic images: Diego Velázquez’s 1656 painting Las Meninas and astronaut Michael ...

MADRID (AP) — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit ...