Archive for the ‘Velasquez’ tag
Las Meninas: A Meta-Painting
Las Meninas is a meta-painting, a painting about paintings. (Thanks to Alejo Sauras for pointing this out to me!) I decided to post Velasquez’s masterpiece with a quick explanation of what makes it meta, but as I have been studying the (digitally reproduced) oil painting and writing about it, I have noticed more and more self-references and so my explanation keeps expanding. At this point I count at least 23 meta aspects. Take a look at the painting yourself and see if you can identify them:
