Some social media users are claiming that the Prado Museum in Madrid is removing the world-famous piece of art for being a hate crime against people with restricted growth, known as dwarfism in ...

The central character in his painting, "Las Meninas," is a royal child. She is surrounded by a posse that includes a maid, a body guard, a dog and two dwarfs.

A woman stands in front of the painting 'Las Meninas' by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at the Prado Museum on June 4, 2020 in Madrid, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.

A small clay pot in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas could hold the key to unlocking the mysterious 17th-Century painting, argues Kelly Grovier.

He did this by painting Las Meninas. It is probably his most famous work, with the king’s daughter as the subject. The other children in the painting are dwarves, the “living playmates” of ...

Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas" (1656)—marked by a massive scale, unremitting technical virtuosity and centuries of critical analysis—is a tour-de-force studio painting and one against which ...

Lindsay Marie Tierce and Will Little in Las Meninas. Works of art based on historic anecdotes that may or may not be true can leave an audience wondering--but then surely that’s part of the ...

The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime.

The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime. ... or ‘meninas’, from which the painting gets its ...