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2. A royal dude commissioned a painting of a chunky six year old and titled it “The Monster.” ... Rude !
That royal dude was King Carlos II of Spain ....

4. In the Spanish royal palaces the buffoons and dwarves with their witty sallies, bizarre behaviour
and physical and psychological peculiarities they offered a permanent image of a carnivalesque world:
... that of the other.

6. Dwarfs or jesters were usually important figures in the daily life of the Spanish court in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
These strange people were represented in paintings, and the Prado Museum has an collection of these paintings ...

8. Art in Detail
Famous Dwarfs
at the Prado Museum

9. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
The Buffoon el Primo (Buffoon Sebastián de Morra)

10. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
The Buffoon el Primo (Buffoon Sebastián de Morra)
c. 1645
Oil on canvas, 106,5 x 81,5 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

11. ... neither a smile, nor any buffoonery
Immobile, scrutinizing and impenetrable, his dark eyes are fixed on the spectator

17. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Buffoon with books

18. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Buffoon with books (The Jester Don Diego de
Acedo)
c. 1644
Oil on canvas, 107 x 82 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

19. ... court buffoon entrusted with the royal seal and surrounded by large books and a pen and inkpot
... was rumored to have been a ladies' man

21. Exuding intelligence and self-assurance, and perhaps a touch of melancholy ...

25. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Dwarf with a Dog

26. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Dwarf with a Dog
Ca. 1645.
Oil on canvas, 142 x 107 cm.
Museo del Prado, Madrid

27. a man with long hair, ostentatiously dressed in the French style, poses next to a dog ...
Velázquez's sympathy for the fools and dwarfs of the Spanish court is obvious: he (and he alone) paid tribute to them.

31. SANCHEZ COELLO, Alonso
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz

32. SANCHEZ COELLO, Alonso
The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia and Magdalena
Ruiz
1585 - 1588.
Oil on canvas, 207 x 129 cm.
Museo del Prado, Madrid

35. Of the Magdalena Ruiz, called La loca, we know she was dwarf and crazy.
She was fond of bulls, dancing and drinking and when she was in a bad mood and under the effects of too much wine
- which was very often the case - she allowed herself to express her bad temper and even scold the king himself.

37. Magdalena Ruiz's health was not good: she was skinny and faint.
At one point Felipe II noticed that she was very pale, so he offered her a glass of wine that she rejected, before
which the king affirmed: "what for her is a bad symptom".
Its features correspond to some of the types of a constitutional bone disease, called metaphyseal chondrodysplasia,
specifically the Jansen type.

40. VILLANDRANDO, Rodrigo de
Prince Philip and the Dwarf, Miguel Soplillo

41. VILLANDRANDO, Rodrigo de
Prince Philip and the Dwarf, Miguel Soplillo
Ca. 1620.
Oil on canvas, 204 x 110 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

43. Philip IV as a prince is accompanied by the dwarf Miguelito, who was nicknamed Soplillo.
The prince rests his hand on Miguelito's head: a gesture of benevolence, of piety to the server ...
Soplillo's face shows his submissiveness and his gratitude towards his master.

47. HAMEN, Juan van der León y
Portrait of a Dwarf

48. HAMEN, Juan van der León y
Portrait of a Dwarf
Ca. 1626.
Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 87 cm.
Museo del Prado, Madrid

49. like a courtier ...
the dwarf, possibly “Bartolo” or “Bartolillo”, dressed in luxurious clothes, in a pose that suggests pride and distance,
carrying a knight’s sword and a general’s baton.

51. ... notable here the enormous dignity and an expression defiant

56. CARREÑO DE MIRANDA, Juan
Eugenia Martinez Vallejo, called La Monstrua

57. ... “The king our lord has ordered she be attired decorously, in the style of the palace, in a sumptuous dress with
red and white brocade and silver buttons, and he has commanded his painter, the distinguished Juan Carreño,
to produce two different portraits of her: one nude, the other clothed .”

58. CARREÑO DE MIRANDA, Juan
Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, naked, La Monstrua
Desnuda
Ca. 1680.
Oil on canvas, 165 x 108 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

59. Eugenia Martinez Vallejo was six years old and weighed 170 pounds ...
probably the sole purpose of this painting was for the aristocracy to gawk at Eugenia’s extensive child-rolls ...

64. CARREÑO DE MIRANDA, Juan
Eugenia Martínez Vallejo, clothed, La
Monstrua Vestida
Ca. 1680.
Oil on canvas, 165 x 108 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

66. It is very possible that Eugenia suffered from the Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
Eugenia died at the age of 25.

70. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas

71. VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y
Las Meninas
1656
Oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm.
Museo del Prado, Madrid

72. Masterpiece Las Meninas captures the royal family in the midst of an ordinary day.
Among the characters is a the Velázquez himself and the achondroplastic German dwarf, Maribarbola.

76. One prominent nineteenth-century chronicler of famous dwarfs found Maria Barbola "horribly ugly" and
"a little monster."
... accustomed to the features of achondroplastic dwarfs, Maria Barbola's face looks agreeable enough.

79. Interestingly, Velázquez and Maria Barbola ...
their glances meet ours: artist and dwarf are alert outsiders -- observers and witnesses.

80. Art in Detail_ Famous Dwarfs at the Prado
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81. VELÁZQUEZ
Diego Velázquez he painted at least ten portraits of dwarfs, most displayed in the Prado museum in Madrid.
The artists who preceded Velázquez at the Spanish court painted dwarfs with a cold detachment that
reflected the 16th and 17th century attitude toward the handicapped.
Velázquez's approach differed radically, he painted the handicapped as he did the royal family, conveying
his own recognition that these unfortunate creatures were as human as their masters.
He respected their dignity as human beings and delineated their individual personalities.