‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch
The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...
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Review: Velázquez's Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena
Queen Isabella of Bourbon, Philip’s shrewd and beloved wife of nearly 30 years, had succumbed two years before. As bad news piled on bad news, something drastic needed to be done. Enter Mariana ...