Focus on this artwork and explore the Legacy and influence.
The portrait inspired the 1965 novel I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño. The novel was awarded the children's literary prize the Newbery Medal in 1966.Velazquez's painting reinterpreted by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in his 1960 work Portrait of Juan de Pareja, the Assistant to Velázquez which is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. French-Senegalese artist Iba N'Diaye restaged the Velazquez portrait in his 1985–86 painting Juan de Pareja agresse par les chiens (Juan de Pareja menaced by dogs).A central theme of the 2012 play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar is a painting of the protagonist, a South Asian Muslim man, as painted by his white wife in the style of the Portrait of Juan de Pareja.
I, Juan de Pareja Ayad Akhtar Iba N'Diaye Minneapolis Institute of Art Pareja Juan de Pareja Salvador Dalí Senegal Newbery Medal Disgraced Elizabeth Borton de Treviño portrait