The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime.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

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

Blake Gopnik visited Diego Velazquez’s painting “Las Meninas” every day for a week and concluded that it “is the absolutely greatest work of art in the Western tradition.” “Las Meninas ...

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 ...

A little person, a nun and a princess are among the stars of Diego Velázquez's 1656 painting Las Meninas, which also features a likeness of the artist himself.It's a work of art that has been a ...

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 ...

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The Cube takes a closer look at claims that Las Meninas will be withdrawn from the Prado Museum in Madrid for supposedly being a hate crime.

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 ...