Documentary / History / Animation
For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the…


The Man
The Girl
Himself - Historian
Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Himself - Historian
Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Herself - Artist
Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Herself - Art Historian
Himself - Art Historian
Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member

R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.