Elizaveta A. Pavlenskaya
(St.Petersburg State University, Russia)

The Evolution of Children’s Portraiture in the Works of Spanish Court Painters of the 16th -17th centuries.

The article is dedicated to the children’s images in the work of the three most prominent court portrait painters of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries — Alonso Sanchez Coello, Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and Diego Velazquez. The most striking works, in the author’s opinion, have been chosen for the analysis; some of them are described and analyzed for the first time.