La Grande Expo : Velazquez, La Peinture Prend Le Pouvoir

The Menines painted in 1656 is probably the most commented painting in the history of art. A royal couple, a princess, maids, jesters and a painter: Diego Velazquez. Representing a painter alongside a royal family is a particularly daring act in the 17th century. From his popular district of Seville to life at the court of Madrid and the Vatican, Diego Velazquez is a petty bourgeois who is full of ambition will rise thanks to his artistic genius at the level of the most powerful. A life made of travels, aesthetic shocks, ambition and even lies. He who embodies as any other the role of "portraitist of the king" is considered today as the painter of painters. How did Velazquez manage to be ennobled and be among the greatest of his time? What are the dreams of this man and the secrets of the artist?