Las Meninas: Is This The Best Painting In History?
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Description:
There’s maybe no painting in the history of the form more worthy of analysis than Diego Velazquez’s Las Meninas.
What we’re talking about here is a masterwork by an artist late in his life, but at the height of his powers,determined to drive into this canvas the sum total of his talent, his experience, and his intellect.
