Abstract
Meninas is imposing and monumental; yet a large portion of the literature devoted to it considers only its elements: aspects of its nominal subjects, their biogra phies, and their roles in the household of the queen or the king. . . . and the small cup of water offered to the Infanta Margarita (such cups were made of scented red clay...).... This increasingly intimate discussion of the painting's details is not altogether beside the point; some of this information deserves to be integrated into descriptions of the painting as a whole. But a reader of these descriptive accounts soon begins to suspect they are offered in the hope that some new detail might provoke an understand ing of the entire painting, might prove to be the key to our comprehension of it.?-Joel Snyder, Las Meninas and the Mirror of the Prince, 19851
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