Velázquez is said to be the most Spanish painter. If so, where are the unbridled passion of Carmen, the abandoned gaiety of Goya's dancing country folk, the fervent mysticism of el Greco? Velázquez gives us other equally Spanish qualities: control and disciplined restraint, courtesy and grace, the decorum and rigid etiquette of the most formal court in all Europe, and in place of the religious excitement of el Greco, sober realism, dignity and pride. Let's have a look!