The Coronation of the Virgin
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Two hands set the crown — the Father's and the Son's — while a dove of light hangs above, completing the Trinity's act. The Prado's index calls it a crown of flowers, not gold, and the woman under it does not reach. Her hand is on her heart, a gesture the museum suggests may recall Turchi's Annunciation Virgin in the same room. If so, crowned, she repeats what she said when asked.
Velázquez painted it for Queen Isabel de Borbón's oratory in the Alcázar, completing nine Turchi Feasts of Our Lady from Rome. His last religious picture.
Sources: Museo Nacional del Prado, object page (fetched 2026-08-15) · Gloria Martínez Leiva, InvestigArt (2018) · Luke 1:38, Douay-Rheims
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,051 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.