The Norton Simon Museum presents “Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen” from the Museo Nacional del Prado. On view from ...

The commission for a formal portrait of Mariana of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor and Spain’s new queen consort, ...

An X-ray of Velazquez’ portrait shows Queen Mariana’s face superimposed over an earlier portrait of King Philip IV (Yale University Press) ...

D iego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria” (1652-53), a monumental portrait of the daughter of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif ...

In the 1630s, Diego Velázquez unveiled his equestrian portrait of Isabel of Bourbon, depicting the queen atop a white steed in a resplendently detailed robe. It was a breathtaking painting but ...

In 1650, Diego Velázquez painted this ennobling portrait of Juan de Pareja, a studio assistant enslaved in his studio. Pareja became an artist in his own right, and his paintings are the focus of ...

The full-length royal portrait, which depicts the first wife of Philip IV of Spain and daughter of Henri IV of France and was painted in the early 1630s, had an estimate in the region of $35 million.

Diego Velázquez’s full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, Queen of Spain is coming to market in February at Sotheby’s in New York and is expected to sell in the region of US$35 million.