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1 Family portraits often aren’t the most exciting pictures to look at, or take. However, the Spanish Old Master Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, who was born on this day 6 June, 1599, managed to turn one, quite peculiar household portrait into one of the best-loved and most widely analysed paintings in western art history.
2 “One of the most famous and controversial artworks of all time, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour) is regarded as a dialogue between artist and viewer, with its double mirror imagery and sketchy brushwork that brings every figure and object in the room to life," explains our book, 30,000 Years of Art. "Painters as diverse as Goya, Manet, Sargent and Picasso have been inspired to create copies and adaptations after Velázquez’s masterpiece.”
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