Table of Contents

Literature on the Painting State of Preservation The Masterpiece and its Author The Characters in the Painting The Enigma of the Representation Las Meninas Diego Velazquez: His Life and Times

About the Author

Marco Carminati was awarded a degree in Medieval and Modern Art History at the Universita Cattolica in Milan in 1986. A professional journalist, since 1990 he has been head of the art, architecture and cultural heritage section of the 'Domenicale', the Sole 24 ORE s Sunday cultural supplement. He has written monographs on Italian Renaissance painters (Piero della Francesca, Cesare da Sesto, the illuminator Master BF), and on Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. He recently published 'Il Davide in Carrozza' (Milan, 2009) the first history of the fantastic adventures of works of art while being transported.