The Willits Center for the Arts invites the public to an engaging discussion on the life and work of Diego Velázquez, one of the most influential painters of the Spanish Golden Age. This special ...

Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — and so had the king’s family life. When the bloody Thirty Years ...

The canvas usually hangs in a gallery dominated by Velázquez’s magisterial “Las Meninas” (1656), in which Mariana can be glimpsed, along with her spouse, Philip IV of Spain, in the ...

Veláquez was the leading artist in the court of Spanish King Philip IV, and this painting was originally displayed in Madrid’s Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. Dr Lucy West, a curator at Dulwich ...