Foucault's The Order of Things opens with an extensive discussion of how th
Foucault's The Order of Things opens with an extensive discussion of how this painting signals an epistemological break in its complex sightlines, and Luca Giordano called it the "Theology of Painting."  A dark figure, knee half bent, pauses in a doorway in the rear, while an ebony mirror on the rear wall reflects the likely viewers of the scene depicted.  The greatest emphasis in this painting is on a young girl, illuminated by a window at right and accompanied by her attendants, one of whom is rousing a sleeping dog with his foot.  The Infanta Margarita and two dwarfs are the central figures of, for 10 points, what painting by Diego Velazquez?
Foucault's The Order of Things opens with an extensive discussion of how this painting signals an epistemological break in its complex sightlines, and Luca Giordano called it the "Theology of Painting."  
Las Meninas [or The Maids of Honor]