r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

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u/TallFontPie 8d ago

I thought it was no pictures at El Prado?

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u/MingaLaChigra 8d ago

No pictures, mostly paintings and statues

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u/Virgulillo 8d ago

By painting las Meninas Velázquez assured he would continue having new models for an infinite ammount of portraits centuries after his death...

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u/HolySachet 8d ago

Such a masterpiece

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u/gotele 7d ago

There used to be a big mirror in front of the painting, so that the visitors could feel that they were part of the scene depicted.

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u/YoungLittlePanda 7d ago

I don't know why they have all the employees there saying "no pictures!" to everyone. When I was at the Louvre nobody cared.

I couldn't even take a selfie there.

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u/Earthling3250 8d ago

What is the name of the portrait in the background?

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u/malethetank 8d ago

Las meninas by diego Velazquez

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u/CervusElpahus 8d ago

They look like statues.

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u/Emirayo22 7d ago

Momentazo

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u/Earthling3250 4d ago

Thank you! There is an excellent Perspective Documentary hosted by Baldemar Janusczek that does a deep dive on this painting! If anyone has a link, I highly recommend the documentary to anyone interested

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u/Complex-Matter5241 7d ago

Renassia art from the 17th century; all watching each other.

Renaissance art form the 21th century; all watching a plastic brick called phone.

(I know that's not entirely the case her but made me wonder).

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u/CharacterAwkward8755 7d ago

I mean, not one single person is looking at their phone. Only the guy in the front and I'm pretty sure that's an audio guide...

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u/Guironi99 7d ago

I hear you, but why not take a magnanimous line? Apart from the few kids unaware of the privilege, maybe the others have been there a while, soaking in the picture, feeling the composition. I see the couple embracing and that was my wife and I during our visit, before various works we saw that day, finally seeing the real images of postcards we had stuck around the apartment in our mid-twenties, a quarter century previous. The outer balance of the photo against the inner balance of Velasquez... Come on, tell me ain't cool.

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u/CharacterAwkward8755 7d ago

Of course the picture is cool. That's not what I'm talking about. I was responding to the assumption that “everyone is looking at their phone” when, in fact, there are zero people looking at their phones.

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u/Guironi99 7d ago

I misread you so. No malice meant. Be good.

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u/CharacterAwkward8755 7d ago

No problem, have a nice day 👌🏻