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Art Bites 167: Royal Portraits and Velázquez
Royal portraits were like the Tinder of 1st-century court life in Europe. Painters were paid to make royals look more capable and more divine than they were. Velázquez painted the royals capably in his “Las Meninas,” but he clearly had an affinity for the common man, too.
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