Las Meninas: Is This The Best Painting In History?

Get 10% any purchase here: http://squarespace.com/nerdwriter HELP ME MAKE MORE VIDEOS: http://www.patreon.com/nerdwriter ASK ME QUESTIONS HERE: http://thenerdwriter.tumblr.com TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter Email me here: [email protected] SOURCES: Joel Snyder and Ted Cohen, “Reflexions on "Las Meninas": Paradox Lost” Critical Inquiry Vol. 7, No. 2 (Winter, 1980), pp. 429-447 George Bauer and Linda Bauer, “Portrait Practice In ‘Las Meninas’” Notes in the History of Art Vol. 19, No. 3 (Spring 2000), pp. 37-42 Emily Umberger, “Velázquez and Naturalism II: Interpreting "Las Meninas" RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics No. 28 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 94-117 Marian Ortuño, “Reading Las Meninas: An Ekphrastic Approach to Teaching Don Quijote” Hispania Vol. 95,No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 681-697 Frederic Chordá, “Computer Graphics for the Analysis of Perspective in Visual Art: "Las Meninas", by Velázquez” Leonardo Vol. 24, No. 5 (1991), pp. 563-567 Gregory Minissale, “Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives” Rodopi (May 5, 2009)