Las Meninas

My favorite piece  of art is the painting “Las Meninas”. This painting is of the century 19 and was painted by painter Spanish Diego Velázquez. 

At first sight, looks a painter, doing a portrait of the princess Margarita de Austria with her Meninas (maids) that they had visited of the workshop of the artist. I like this painting because has various details interesting and therefore, various interpretations.

One of these interpretations is that the painter that appears in this painting is Velázquez, creator of this painting, so that there is a self Portrait and portrait, but this portrait, that is, what appears on the canvas are Margarita’s parents: the king Felipe V and the queen Margarita de Austria, this can be observed looking the mirror of the wall. This detail is very interesting because for drawing to the king and the queen so small, this shows that they had him a great confidence to Velázquez. Finally, it is know that this mirror is not a painting because in the wall of the workshop appears paintings that actually exist.