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Las Meninas

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Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez, 1656
Oil on canvas
318 × 276 cm, 125.2 × 108.7 in
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted. Because of these complexities, Las Meninas has been one of the most widely analysed works in Western painting.

Las Meninas shows a large room in the Madrid palace of King

Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured, according to some commentators, in a particular moment as if in a snapshot.

[Source: Wikipedia]

The selling point of this painting is the amazing depth of view (景深), Diego Velázquez records the moment of palace life and turns it in art.

The most special point of this painting is that Diego Velázquez draws himself into the painting, many artists araise the question that "What position should he stand to draw this moment, including himself?"

Let's see how the depth of view is made by the complicated composition.

1. The large area of wall and ceiling.
2.The cutie princess stands at the center and front.
3. The marshal walks across the door at the back.

4. The reflection of king and queen in the mirror makes the room more large, it seems that you could really walk insode the room.Just like The Arnolfini Wedding which I have mentiones before.

Refferences and further readings:

Las Meninas, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Las Meninas, from EVL

陳彬彬, (2008), 從零開始圖解西洋名畫, 台灣:晨星出版有限公司