A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas asks, Just what is it you think you're looking at?

The portrait of Spanish Queen Isabel de Borbón, which was expected to break the artist's previous records, was quietly withdrawn from auction due to "ongoing discussions" on behalf of the sellers.

It has been in the same family collection since 1978.

Juan De Pareja was an artist and the enslaved studio assistant of Diego Velazquez.

He organized important shows for the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Frick Collection.

The show will include works by Diego Velázquez, El Greco, and others.

Selections include the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibition and "Young British Artists" at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992.

In the early 1970s, art historian and critic Leo Steinberg wrote a series of short articles for ARTnews about works he believed were masterpieces, mainly ones from the Renaissance and Baroque per…

At The Spectator, Richard Cork tells when he was in the room for the first ever painting to sell for £1 million at auction. Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja. It started at £315,000, and…

Duchamp's dictionary, Picasso's (other) muse, Lucy Lippard's landscapes, and Hans Ulrich Obrist's map quests are among the subjects of recent volumes that expand the story of art