Las Meninas
1656 · Work
Velázquez's labyrinthine portrait at the Spanish court, a meditation on representation.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, Spain, The Habsburg Dynasty
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- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
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Around 1656
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- English Civil War (1642)
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- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)