The author of the painting Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) worked well at the court of Philip IV, thus at the centre of the centralised power structure of one of the initial nation-states of Early Modern European countries. Las Meninas has been argued - both in Velázquez time and in ours - to be his masterpiece.
My purpose in this article is to claim for an interpretation of this painting and its shaping by an exploration of electricity relations..
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