Las Meninas

Diego Velazquez was born in the 1600’s, and was a renowned painter of the Baroque period. Known most famously for his painting, Las Meninas, Velazquez inspired and was emulated by numerous artists. Beginning in 1611, for six years he apprenticed at the hand of Francisco Pacheco, acquiring skills on how to paint with an idealized style. However, after his apprenticeship, Velazquez shifted techniques to paint with a more realistic manner. Following his first commission by the royal family of…

create an incredibly convincing deep space within their paining. Masaccio and Velazquez both successfully use naturalism, in the way Jesus Christ’s muscles are being pulled as if he is actually hanging from a cross and also in the way the figures in Las Meninas seem real and in the middle of a real life moment. The figures in both painting appear to be three dimensional and extremely believable. Both artists are trying to relay a message to the viewer within their paintings. Masaccio is trying…

The “Las meninas” is a painting that Diego Velázques painted in 1656. Velázques was a painter in the 17th century. He painted portraits of King Philip IV and his family. The Las meninas is a painting of the King’s daughter and her attendees getting her ready for a special occasion. Also in the painting is Velázques himself painting the painting. In all his other drawings, he paints himself in them. In las meninas, the painting portrays the King's daughter and her royalty to the kingdom.…

backgrounds and both pictures were made before the 2000’s. Velazquez’s version and Picasso’s version are both oil on canvas paintings. These paintings both have the name Las Meninas.These paintings are different because Velazquez and Picasso both had a very different way of interpreting a scene in time. Velazquez did his version of Las Meninas using realism. Picasso did his painting using a version of painting called cubism. In Velazquez’s picture the scene is less focused on the princess and…

weren't for the princess's helpers she wouldn't appear stunningly in public and he's also giving thanks and complimenting them for their hard work and for being hard workers.Also I think that Picasso was trying to portray through his painting of "Las Meninas" that even through all that hard work that the princess's employees do and give they still aré judged and seen as the lower class below the princess's level class and basically what he's saying is that the princess is seen as though she's…

Diego Velásquez Diego Velásquez was an influential artist during the Baroque period. Velásquez was best known for all of his amazing artworks. He was born in Seville, Spain. He was the son of João Rodrigues de Silva and Jerónima Velázquez. He inspired many through all of his artworks and paintings. Diego Velásquez lived in the Baroque era. This was the period from the years 1600 to 1750. It started in Rome, Italy and then ended up spreading to Europe. This was the type of style that used…

During the analysis of Las Meninas, the students were mostly silent as they completed their evaluation document. After every student completed the document, the researcher asked students their general impressions of the painting when it first appeared on the screen and how that…

Lexie Genthner The term Baroque meaning irregular pearl or stone derived from the Portuguese it is described as a fairly complex idiom which began in Rome and progressed during the 1590’s through 1700 it embraced sculpture, painting, as well as architecture. The style is profoundly tied to the religious and political context during this century after the protestant reformation the catholic church began its own counter reformation to ameliorate its power and attract more followers to the faith.…

Diego Velazquez is the artist that I would use to represent Spain’s biennial exhibition of Baroque art. According to http://www.spanish-art.org/spanish-painting-early.html Spain has produced some of the world’s most famous painters and they have produced some of the world’s most famous paintings. Furthermore, Spanish painters have been instrumental in the development of many different art movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Mannerism and Romanticism, according to…

John Singer Sargent was born in 1856 in Florence, Italy even though his parents were native to North America. He was provided with little schooling other than geography, math and reading, but learned to speak Italian, French, and German. His mother was an amateur artist and encouraged him to paint with her and after seeing the skill and ability he had his parents enrolled him in his first-documented formal art training at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence. In spring of 1874 his father…