Which painter included a somewhat grand self-portrait in La Meninas (1656), his illustrious painting of the Spanish royal family?

Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) is among the most admired European artists in history, yet he was relatively obscure until two centuries after his death. Since the majority of his work was produced for the Spanish monarchy, it was locked up in royal palaces until Napoleon shook things up in the early 1800s.

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