
03 Oct 2003

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.
What is happening in that room?
For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.
The Man
The Girl
Himself - Historian
Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Himself - Historian
Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Herself - Artist
Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Herself - Art Historian
Himself - Art Historian
Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Himself - Writer
Himself - Art Historian
Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Himself - Writer
Himself - Art Historian
Himself - Architect
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