Mariana Alfaro

Mariana Alfaro is a reporter for The Washington Post's breaking political news team. She joined The Post in 2019. She can be ...
Los Angeles Times

Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait has ...