I have decided to pick "Las Meninas" (1656) by Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y for this week's Baroque Blog. This painting was created on a 320.5 x 281.5 cm canvas as oil painting and it is displayed at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. This painting was "one of Velazquez's largest paintings and he made more effort to create since it has a sense of life and reality while enclosing a dense network of meanings." (“Las Meninas - the Collection - Museo Nacional Del Prado”). If we look at this painting, it will seem like they are looking at us, which makes it amazing and mysterious in what they are actually looking at. The scene that was put for this painting was "carefully constructed using perspective, geometry, and visual illusion to create a tangible space, but one with an aura of mystery, where the spectator's viewpoint is an integral part of the painting." (Owen). Velazquez not only "captured the physical likeness of his s...