Born in Seville, in 1599, Diego Velázquez would become one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era. A contemporary of artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, he rose from ...

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 ...

Irish novelist John Banville has enjoyed unlimited access to Spain's Prado Museum for the past month as its latest ...

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

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

Disruption and Devotion exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston offers visitors an immersive journey through Dalí’s ...

Earlier in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson smuggled a meat cleaver into the National Gallery and slashed the Rokeby Venus, a painting by Diego Velázquez. Again, her action was ostensibly ...

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 ...

EARLY on in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, a character speculates on the focal subject of Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas – a ...