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Las Meninas, a work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez of 1656, has been the subject of a flood of interpretational studies. Initiated by Antonio Palomino, the realistic notion of the representation is based on the assumption that the figures depicted, including the monarchs, actually posed for the artist. The sociological approach was inaugurated by a study by Charles de Tolnay from 1949, in...