Always used to love ads in the back of comics like this. I'd still buy these now.






Here, Velázquez created an incomparable simulacrum of space, light, cloth, people, dogs, and himself at work on a large canvas - an illusion of the artist creating an illusion. What exactly is Velázquez representing on that canvas? Is it the king and queen, reflected in the mirror? Are they standing in the same position as us, the viewers? This, as a contemporary remarked, is the "theology of painting" - a meditation on art and reality.
