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Meaning of maribárbola



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maribárbola
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Name of one of Las Meninas painted by Velázquez (the Sevillian Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez). She was dwarf and German. Her real name was Maria Barbara Asquín.

  



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In Asturleonés Maria Barbara. Thus they called María Bárbara Asquín, the dwarf that appears in the foreground on the right after a mastiff in the Meninas de Velázquez, a painting that at first was instituted Portrait of the Lady Empress with her ladies and a dwarf; in the eighteenth century, the family of Lord King Phelipe Quarto and then the Family. In the Secret of Maribárbola a Spanish journalist fondly recreates this character of our culture.

  










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