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El enigma de Las Meninas 👑🎨

Diego Velázquez pintó en 1656 una de las obras más misteriosas de la historia del arte. ¿Un retrato real? ¿Un experimento visual? ¿Un manifiesto artístico?
📌 Más que un retrato, es un juego de perspectivas, poder y arte que sigue fascinando siglos después.
👉 Y tú, ¿quién crees que es el verdadero protagonista de Las Meninas?

#LasMeninas #Velázquez #ArteBarroco #HistoriaDelArte #MuseoDelPrado #CuriosidadesHistóricas #SabíasQue #DatoCurioso #Historia #Cultura

HuffPost [ES]Sep 25

🎭 ■ Se planta en el Prado para pasar tres horas con Las Meninas: lo que pasa es una delicia ■ El reto de contemplar el cuadro de Velázquez sin distracciones se convirtió en un viaje interior que transformó la experiencia de mirar.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/cultura/se-planta-prado-pasar-tres-horas-meninas-pasa-delicia.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#cultura #arte #museodelprado

Victoria Venery Sep 22

They didn't allow photos inside the museum so you'll miss out on my observations of weird cats, gormless royals and the weird fetish painting of the virign Mary squirming breastfeeding milk into the mouth of a saint.

#madrid #Spain #veneryworldtour #museodelprado

Victoria Venery Sep 22

Kinky. #Madrid #Spain #veneryworldtour #museodelprado

Victoria Venery Sep 22

Looking at some more old stuff. Old art stuff this time. #Madrid #Spain #veneryworldtour #museodelprado

MediaFaro Magazine Sep 8

How a 17th-century art dealer bought top works at bargain prices for the Prado Museum.

In 1635, Spain sent an envoy to England to make purchases. When Charles I was beheaded, the dismantling of the English art collections became the opportunity of the century.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250908-how-a-17th-century-art-dealer-bought-top-works-at-bargain-prices-for-the-prado-museum?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Art #Prado #Museum #MuseoDelPrado #Madrid #Spain #England #UK #History

How a 17th-century art dealer bought top works at bargain prices for the Prado Museum.

In 1635, Spain sent an envoy to England to make purchases. When Charles I was beheaded, the dismantling of the English art collections became the opportunity of the century.

El País

HuffPost [ES]Jun 3

🎨 ■ Felipe VI da la sorpresa y aparece analizando 'Las Meninas' del Museo del Prado ■ La pinacoteca celebra los 1.000 directos publicados en Instagram con una iniciativa especial.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/cultura/felipe-vi-da-sorpresa-aparece-analizando-las-meninas-museo-prado.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#pintura #felipevi #cultura #arte #museodelprado

HuffPost [ES]Jun 3

🔥 ■ Una experta en comunicación no verbal examina y suspende a Felipe VI por lo que hace en el Museo del Prado ■ Patrycia Centeno lo tiene clarísimo.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/virales/una-experta-comunicacion-verbal-examina-suspende-felipe-vi-museo-prado.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#virales #museodelprado #felipevi #patryciacenteno

Art triptychs Apr 20

José de Ribera (Spanish, 1591-1652)
Ixion
1632
Oil on canvas (220 x 301 cm)
Museo del Prado

The father of the race of centaurs, Ixion was punished by madness for murdering his father-in-law. After he was pardoned he attempted to supplant Jupiter in Juno’s bed and was consequently condemned to be turned on a wheel for all eternity. Ribera depicts the wheel being set in motion by a satyr who has chained Ixion to it, allowing the artist to display his mastery of anatomy.

#Ribera #Ixion #MuseodelPrado #art

Art triptychs Apr 20

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, Italian, 1488/90-1576)
Sisyphus
1548-1549
Oil on canvas (237 x 216 cm)
Museo del Prado

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of death earns him eternal punishment in the underworld, once he dies of old age. The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on contemporary culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean.

#Titian #Sisyphus #art #MuseodelPrado #Prado