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Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of the Queen of Spain Could Sell For $35 Million
If achieved, the price would place the monumental painting among the most valuable Old Master works to be sold at auction. The Spanish master’s royal portraits of the family of King Philip IV of ...
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In focus: Velázquez
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 ...
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Diego Velázquez
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 ...
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'Rokeby Venus' goes back on show at National Gallery four weeks after attack by climate activists
Like Velazquez's matchless and near-contemporaneous ... the imaginative driver for some of Francis Bacon's most powerful paintings—the Venus has come to be an ideal subject for appropriation ...
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‘The pictures, they look at you.’ A stroll with novelist John Banville through Spain's Prado Museum
a mirror reflecting King Phillip IV and his queen — and also Velazquez, stepping back from his canvas and looking straight down at the viewer. The painting — a paragon of Baroque ...