Like no other, Diego Velázquez inspired generations of European artists. His life and work are closely bound to the court of King Philip IV, who appointed him as court painter and on whose orders he ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? When Italian Baroque artist Luca Giordano declared Las Meninas “the ...

For over a year, climate activists in Britain have performed stunts in museums to draw attention to their cause. They’ve often damaged frames, and now appear to have damaged a painting, too. By Alex ...

Velázquez, Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), 1650. (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Black figure is currently in a sustained spotlight. For some time now, curators, scholars, and critics have wrestled ...

Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — and so had the king’s family life. When the bloody Thirty Years' War that ...

The Meadows Museum, SMU, announced today that it has acquired a rare signed and dated portrait by Bartolomé González y Serrano (1564–1627) titled Portrait of a Lady (1621).