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Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez’s portrait of a Spanish princess and her entourage is one of, if not the most widely discussed paintings in western painting. Every viewing raises more questions, and every answer is followed by a dense network of meanings.

It is not only a high point of realism in painting, a perfect life-like depiction of the Spanish court - it is also a complex meditation on painting itself. It’s a spell-binding work that is concerned with how we view a painting, and how the subjects in a painting view us.

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Spanish subtitles by Alma Perdomo (Gracias!)

CREDITS
Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)

YouTube artist instruction videos used with permission. They are all brilliant channels!
Old Dirty Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MA0Yq1qWw
Painting the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5hG4mEVb0&t=1s
Luis Borrero, Visual Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqy4JUfT4Yk

Recording by Robert Lewis (Thank you!)

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MUSIC
Tomas Luis de Victoria - Ave Maria

BOOKS
Velazquez – The Technique of Genius - by Jonathan Brown
Velázquez: Las Meninas and the Late Royal Portraits by Javier Portús
Velázquez (World of Art) by Richard Verdi
Velázquez by Norbert Wolf
The Order of Things: An archaeology of the human sciences (Routledge Classics) by Michel Foucault

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