las meninas by diego velázquez
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Diego Velásquez’ Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honor, hangs in a backroom at Madrid's La Prado where it is suspend in majestic isolation. The environment around Las Meninas is so artistically controlled that one can say that the dim light of the museum duplicates the light in the painting- a greenish one - and the walls of the museum are a soft gray like those in Velásquez’ studio. You are invited in this perfectly controlled setting to enter the world of this great painting, to enter into Las Meninas.TRANSCRIPT
