Diego Velázquez’s Expulsion of the Moriscos (1627) did not have the same lucky escape as Las Meninas (1656) when a catastrophic four-day fire broke out in Madrid’s royal palace in 1734. Las Meninas ...
Reporting from San Diego — Think of Spain’s Golden Age, and the paintings produced in Seville and Madrid in the 17th century by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez can crowd out everything else that ...
Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez at the "Sing Sing" Premiere, 2024 Samantha Burkardt/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, the wrongfully convicted former prisoner who now ...
Side-by-side comparisons of ancient and modern Masters have been a bankable formula for blockbuster museum exhibitions for quite some time now, but they seem particularly popular lately.