When Image sets Reality. Perspectival alchemy in Velazquez's Las Meninas

(Croato) Postoje djela prekretnice u povijesti umjetnosti, znanosti, tehnici i humanistici. Takvo djelo je i slika Las Meninas. Povjesnicari i teoreticari su predlozili nekoliko razina citanja" i istrazivanja djela te su se pojavila brojna tumacenja. Izgleda da jos uvijek vrlo sosticirana konstrukcija ovog remek djela nije pod jednoznacnom hipotezom sto ga cini jednako zadivljujucim koliko i zagonetnim. Nase zanimajnje za ovo izvanredno remek djelo proizlazi iz cinjenice da slika pripada posebnoj kategoriji djela cije se znacenje temelji i neraskidivo je povezano s njihovom projektivnom strukturom. Stoga, svjesni opseznosti im-plikacija mi cemo se fokusirati na njezin geometrijski i gracki znacaj.

There are images in History of Art, Science, Technique, Humanities, which are milestones. Las Meninas is one of these. Several levels of reading and deepening have been proposed by historians and theoreticians, and many interpretations have been made. Yet the very sophisticated construction of this masterpiece seems to escape any univocal hypothesis, making it as well astonishing as enigmatic. Our interest in this extraordinary opera stems from the fact that it belongs to that special category of paintings whose meaning is inextricably based on and linked to their projective structure; therefore, aware of the wideness of the implications, we will mainly focus on its geometric and graphic feature.