On March 10, 1914, a woman entered the National Gallery in London, strode up to Diego Velázquez’s Venus at her Toilet, (ca. 1647–51) and began hacking at the masterpiece with a meat cleaver. The woman ...

57.8 x 42.9 cm. (22.8 x 16.9 in.) From whom acquired by Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Baronet and 1st Viscount of Monserrate, 1892, Doughty House, Richmond (as Velázquez); Thence by descent to his ...

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait has ...

Spaniard Diego Velázquez (1599 –1660) is coming to Pasadena, CA’s Norton Simon Museum December 13, 2024, through March 24, 2025, with a special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

A full-length portrait painted by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez of Queen Isabel de Borbón, the wife of Spain’s King Philip IV, is expected to fetch $35 million when it heads to auction at Sotheby’s ...

MADRID (Reuters Life!) - A U.S. expert on European art says he has discovered a painting by Spanish 17th century master Diego Velazquez languishing in a back room of Yale University art gallery. If it ...

Diego Velázquez’s full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain is coming to market in February at Sotheby’s in New York and is expected to sell in the region of US$35 million. If achieved, ...

Readers respond to the rapidly developing events in the Middle East. Also: The virtues of coal; three hours with Velázquez. For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with ...