Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez from 1656 is considered a masterpiece of Spanish painting. It depicts the royal family and their entourage in the palace. The painting uses life-size figures and consists of three vertically sewn canvas strips. It is one of the most analyzed works of art due to its complex composition and possible hidden meanings. Various interpretations have emphasized its realism, historical context, or philosophical structure involving the viewer.

1. Las Meninas
Las Meninas, as the picture is known since the nineteenth century , or The Family of Philip IV as
described in the inventory of 1734 , is considered the masterpiece of the century Spanish painter
Diego Velázquez gold . Finished in 1656 by Antonio Palomino , date unanimously accepted by
critics, it is the last stylistic period of the artist, that of full maturity. It is an oil painting done on a
large canvas consists of three bands of cloth sewn vertically , where the figures located in the
foreground are depicted life-size . It is one of the paintings most analyzed and discussed in the art
world . [1 ]lthough was described in some detail by Antonio Palomino [2] and glowingly mentioned
by some artists and travelers who had the opportunity to see him in the palace, did not reach
genuine international reputation until 1819, when after the opening of the Museo del Prado can be
copied and covered by a wider audience. Since then they have offered him various interpretations,
synthesized by Jonathan Brown into three streams. [3] The realistic, chronologically the first,
defended by Stirling-Maxwell and Carl Justi, put the emphasis on loyalty "captured moment" with
the painter anticipated the realism of photography, valuing with Edouard Manet and Aureliano de
Beruete the technical means used. The publication in 1925 of the article devoted to the library
Velazquez Sanchez Canton, with the inventory of the library that Velazquez had opened the way to
new interpretations of historical-empirical based on the recognition of literary and scientific
interests painter. [4] The presence of the painter in the library of books as Alciato Emblemasde or
Iconology Cesare Ripa varied stimulated the search for hidden meanings and symbolic contents in
Las Meninas. With Michel Foucault and poststructuralism born last interpretative current,
philosophical. Foucault dismisses the iconography and its significance and ignores historical data
to explain this work as a knowledge structure in which the viewer is dynamic representation
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2. Adrián, Claudia, Dani, Marieta,
Lydia y Samuel.