Felipe VI has participated on Tuesday in One of the directs that the Prado Museum does every morning Through his Instagram account a few minutes before opening its doors to the public. The monarch has analyzed in the video ‘Las Meninas’, Diego Velázquez’s masterpieceto celebrate the number 1,000 of the Pinacoteca in this social network.
“It is one of the most emblematic works in the collection and also one of the most visited“The king explained in the video to then enter the artistic analysis of the details of the work.
It is no accident that the Head of State has chosen this work, since The represented figures are part of their family tree. In the center of the image is the Infanta Margarita, while deep down, in a portrait, King Felipe IV, from which the current monarch descends.
In fact, He has revealed one of the secrets of the work, That until now it had gone unnoticed by much of the public: “As a curiosity, that Red Cross of the Order of Santiago that carries in the chest was not originally in the painting. It is believed that it was added later, perhaps by Velázquez himself.”
The monarch has also been encouraged to give The precise indications to interpret the picture: “Some scholars of the painting believe that the kings are standing, just where we are, the spectators, while Velázquez paints his portrait.”
In this way, the monarch has commemorated the thousand directs of the museum on social networks, doing the functions that workers, experts and art critics of the Prado Museum fulfill every day.
