Iconography of Las meninas de Velázquez

With these foundations and with Portraiture – at which he excelled, making them closely resemble the subject not only in countenance, but in bearing and movement, too – he attained to a true image of nature...
A.A. Palomino (1715-24), El museo pictórico y escala óptica

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