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Look at the painting below. Name the painting and the artist and describe its

important features. PLEASE HELP!!

Look at the painting below. Name the painting and the artist and describe its important-example-1
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I believe that's by Diego Velazquez. The name of the painting is las meninas

1 important feature is that it is on a canvas.

Main figures in Las Meninas.

Infanta Margaret Theresa. The young princess would have been about 5 years old when Las Meninas was painted.

María Agustina Sarmiento and Isabel de Velasco.

Maria Barbola and Nicolasito Pertusato.

Marcela de Ulloa.

José Nieto.

Step-by-step explanation:

Those are some of the people that are in the picture and was painted in 1656.

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Las Meninas is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted.
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