Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velasquez (lemm.ee)
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Painted as a prize for the Panathenaic Games. Reverse depicts a foot race
Zoomable close-up
Unfinished and Da Vinci’s only known male portrait, oil on walnut.
Was playing Horizon Forbidden West last night and the game had you go through a gallery of Dutch art to explore the motivations and background of several characters. Very unexpected, and might be the favorite moment of the game. Night Watch was one of the pieces in that gallery.
Purchased by Bernard Berenson for Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1869 and was displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before its theft in 1990; it remains missing.
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2073256...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1992319...
Note: this piece is also referred to as the “Paint-Makers Plight”...
Not often you see an accomplished artist make such an direct and confronting self portrait.
The way he captures light is beautiful
Reminds me of Copland