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Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez, 1656
The little girl in white is a Spanish princess, surrounded by her maids, a dog, and two court dwarfs who were apparently real people with names of their own, kept around for entertainment — which reads differently now than it must have then. There's also a small mirror on the back wall that, from what I can tell, reflects the king and queen, apparently right about where they'd have been standing to watch all this get painted.
Erisava: Everyone in this room seems to be either watching her or waiting on her.
Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez, 1644
A suffragette went at this with a small axe in 1914, in protest at Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest — it's said she was fed up with men queuing up to stare at it all day. It was patched up afterwards, and photos of the damage are apparently still floating about.
Erisava: That face in the mirror is a blur, but the skin must have taken forever. Odd priorities.