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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...