Not since the historic exhibition of Velazquez in 1990–which battered all Prado Museum attendance records–has there been a Velazquez show in the Prado to match the current one, running from 8 Oct. 2013 to 9 Feb. 2014. Javier Portus, chief curator of Spanish paintings at the Prado Museum, has selected 30 of the painter’s later portraits mainly of the Spanish king Felipe IV and his family for this show entitled “Velazquez and the Family of Felipe IV.”
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