What is Diego Velázquez's most expensive painting? Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,632,746 USD for Portrait of a gentleman, sold at Bonhams New Bond Street in 2011. In the ...

A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you think you're looking at?

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical ...

Expulsion of the Moriscos, by Velázquez, was destroyed in a 1734 fire, but now artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo has used A.I. to recreate it.

When the artist set to work, she had recently born the king a child — the Infanta Margarita, who would later become a central figure in “Las Meninas,” Velázquez’s greatest painting.

Art & Exhibitions From Velázquez to Leonardo, Museum Show Highlights the Artists Who Inspired Salvador Dalí. As much as they looked to the future, Dalí’s dreamscapes were often inspired by ...

Diego Velázquez (Rodriguez de Silva y) was the most famous Spanish artist of his time. He was born in Seville in 1599 and died in 1660. After early successes such as “The Water Carrier of ...

For over a year, climate activists in Britain have performed stunts in museums to draw attention to their cause. They’ve often damaged frames, and now appear to have damaged a painting, too.

Once enslaved by Diego Velázquez, Juan de Pareja has often been treated as “a curiosity of history” rather than an accomplished independent artist. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ...

If the standard for greatness as a painter is purely the ability to conjure magic with a brush, then the GOAT might be Diego Velázquez, and the GOAT is coming to Pasadena, CA’s Norton Simon Museum.