Name: ベラスケス、ラス・メニーナス、1656年頃 (Velázquez, Las Meninas, c. 1656)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:02:07.000Z
Duration: 6 min
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DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: We're in the Prado in Madrid,

DR. BETH HARRIS: Did you mean great in terms of size?

a painting with a very large painting inside it.

DR. BETH HARRIS: That's the same size as the painting it is.

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: In fact, some art historians

have suggested that the painting that Velazquez-- notice

there is a self-portrait of Velazquez in the active painting-- is in fact painting

So what we're seeing here is, in the center,

the princess attended by the maids of honor,

a dwarf, her governess, and some other attendants.

And, on the back wall, a mirror, which is the puzzle, in a way,

because, unlike the canvases on the back wall,

We can see the beveled edge of the glass.

that we must be them, looking into the mirror

Others have suggested that, in fact, the mirror is reflecting

the image that's being depicted on the canvas by Velazquez.

And then even other art historians have suggested,

yes, the mirror's reflecting what's on the canvas.

But the king and queen are still standing

before us, which is why the princess is looking out at us.

And even the dog is, in a sense, taking notice.

DR. BETH HARRIS: And why there's just general attention being

very much focused on where we are in front of the painting.

Perhaps we're in the space of the king and queen.

And this painting was meant for the study of the king, who

would have been the person looking at it.

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: That issue of looking, of gaze,

is I think for me really one of the central keys

It seems to me to be a conversation of glances,

at self-- an essay on the way in which we see.

DR. BETH HARRIS: To me, it's more of paying attention.

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: I think that's exactly right.

DR. BETH HARRIS: You'd have to pay attention to them

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: You would ignore them at your own peril.

was first painter to the king, looking out

job that an artist could have in Spain at this moment.

DR. BETH HARRIS: That's the amazing thing

makes it so hard to say what it is, and makes it so compelling,

Because we know what portraits look like.

And there are very formal portraits of the royal family,

So there's an informality, like a genre painting, like we're

looking at something like day in the life of the painter's

But that's not what is it because it's also a portrait.

DR. STEVEN ZUCKER: It's like, the intimate portrait.

It's a portrait that gives you access to, in a sense,

the real moment, the real life within this palace.

suggested that the painting is, in part, a way for the artist

to promote himself, and to show his importance,

DR. BETH HARRIS: The idea that, as a painter,

he's not just a craftsman but an intellectual.