LAS MANINAS is one of the world’s most famous paintings and perhaps the most talked about through history. Las Meninas has long been perceived as a standout amongst the most imperative pieces in Western craftsmanship history.
The Las Maninas was done in 1656 by the famous Spanish leading artist of the Spanish golden age “Diego Velazquez”. This painting was created in Spain in the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In this naturalistic western masterpiece the artist used the oil on canvas. He was inspired from the baroque’s technique which is exaggerated motion and the painting is 318 cm x 276 cm. it is a portrait of the royal family of Spain kind Filipe IV. The second you look at the painting you notice the cute little princess Infanta Margarita, surrounded by her servants. This piece of art is currently located in Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Infanta appears to be in the center of the attention and focus because she is the focal point in the foreground as shown and from the light shining on her, while her maids of honor are around her and her parent’s fine perfectly done reflection the king and his second wife appear in the foreground of the painting in the mirror, wherefrom we notice the amazing illusion the is created at that point of the painting, and that feeling of being there. Standing just to one side of the King and Queen, whose reflections we …show more content…
The maid of the left of the princess, María Agustina Sarmiento seems to be on her knee offering the princess what appears to be like a cup of water and the one of the right is Isabel de Velasco. Also the one of the far right is Mari Barbola and her son Nicolás Pertusato. Behind Isabel de Velasco stands Marcela de Ullo. In the background appears a man standing in a doorway and that’s José de Nieto Velazquez the chamberlain of the queen, which may had been related somehow to
The Las Maninas was done in 1656 by the famous Spanish leading artist of the Spanish golden age “Diego Velazquez”. This painting was created in Spain in the Alcazar palace in Madrid. In this naturalistic western masterpiece the artist used the oil on canvas. He was inspired from the baroque’s technique which is exaggerated motion and the painting is 318 cm x 276 cm. it is a portrait of the royal family of Spain kind Filipe IV. The second you look at the painting you notice the cute little princess Infanta Margarita, surrounded by her servants. This piece of art is currently located in Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Infanta appears to be in the center of the attention and focus because she is the focal point in the foreground as shown and from the light shining on her, while her maids of honor are around her and her parent’s fine perfectly done reflection the king and his second wife appear in the foreground of the painting in the mirror, wherefrom we notice the amazing illusion the is created at that point of the painting, and that feeling of being there. Standing just to one side of the King and Queen, whose reflections we …show more content…
The maid of the left of the princess, María Agustina Sarmiento seems to be on her knee offering the princess what appears to be like a cup of water and the one of the right is Isabel de Velasco. Also the one of the far right is Mari Barbola and her son Nicolás Pertusato. Behind Isabel de Velasco stands Marcela de Ullo. In the background appears a man standing in a doorway and that’s José de Nieto Velazquez the chamberlain of the queen, which may had been related somehow to