Because of Vela zquez' great skill in merging color, light, space, rhythm of line, and mass in such a way that all have equal value, he was known as "the painter's painter,"" as demonstrated in the paintings Las Meninas, Sebastia n de Morra, and Baltasar Carlos and a Dwarf. ... The Infanta Margarita is in the center, attended by two Meninas, or maids of honor, Doña Isabel de Velasco and Doña Mara Sarmiento, who curtsy as the latter offers her mistress a drink of water in a bùcaro-a reddish earthen vessel -on a tray. ...

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