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=== Art === {{Main|Spanish art}} [[File:Las Meninas, by Diego Velázquez, from Prado in Google Earth.jpg|thumb|{{Lang|es|[[Las Meninas]]}} by [[Diego Velázquez]]]] Artists from Spain have been highly influential in the development of various European and [[Hispanic America|American]] [[art movement|artistic movements]]. Due to historical, geographical and generational diversity, Spanish art has known a great number of influences. The Mediterranean heritage with Greco-Roman and some Moorish influences in Spain, especially in [[Andalusia]], is still evident today. European influences include Italy, Germany and France, especially during the Renaissance, [[Baroque|Spanish Baroque]] and [[Neoclassicism|Neoclassical]] periods. There are many other autochthonous styles such as the [[Pre-Romanesque art and architecture]], [[Herrerian]] architecture or the [[Isabelline Gothic]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} During the Golden Age painters working in Spain included [[El Greco]], [[José de Ribera]], [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]] and [[Francisco Zurbarán]]. Also in the Baroque period, [[Diego Velázquez]] created some of the most famous Spanish portraits, such as {{Lang|es|[[Las Meninas]]}} and {{Lang|es|[[Las Hilanderas (Velázquez)|Las Hilanderas]]}}.<ref>{{cite web|last=Anirudh|title=10 Most Famous Paintings by Diego Velazquez {{!}} Learnodo Newtonic|url=https://learnodo-newtonic.com/diego-velazquez-famous-paintings|access-date=21 November 2020|language=en-US|archive-date=24 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124092357/https://learnodo-newtonic.com/diego-velazquez-famous-paintings|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Francisco Goya]] painted during a historical period that includes the [[Peninsular War|Spanish Independence War]], the fights between liberals and absolutists, and the rise of contemporary nations-states.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} [[Joaquín Sorolla]] is a well-known modern impressionist painter and there are many important Spanish painters belonging to the modernism art movement, including [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Juan Gris]] and [[Joan Miró]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
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