The Prado Museum exhibited a wide range of paintings that used many themes such as religion, culture, royalty, mythology, romance, identity and many more. The vast art collection exposed the viewer to many styles and techniques that had the ability to tell stories, create scenarios and exhume the past. Several paintings caught my attention, particularly those done by Velasquez. During my visit, I had developed an appreciation for the painter's use of rich colors, his attention to and use of detail, and his realistic approach to the human body. One of the paintings I paid the most attention to was his work entitled The Jester Sebastian de Morra, initially from the Royal Collection. It is a portrait created around 1646, using oil on canvas, with dimensions of 106.5 cm x 82.5 cm. The subject takes up the majority of the painting, placed in the center, with a small amount of space framing it. The colors involved in the painting contrast with each other, the background is in earth tones and the subject is painted in brighter colors such as red, green and flesh colour. The subject, Don Sebastian de Morra, was a dwarf who initially served in the court of Cardinal Infante Don Fernando in Flanders and later served in the Spanish court of Prince Baltasar Carlos in 1643 as a jester. He was a dwarf who suffered from achondroplasia, a cause of short-limbed dwarfism (Closet-Crane, 2005). There is a certain degree of simplicity in the painting, particularly in the way Velasquez simply used space to surround the subject. If it were not for the way Velasquez varied the tones of the background through the use of light, the subject would have appeared...... in the center of the paper ......iling of humanity and science socialis, 1(25), 155-164. Retrieved February 11, 2014, from the Academia database. The jester Sebastian de Morra. (n.d.). Museo Nacional del Prado: Online Gallery. Retrieved February 11, 2014, from https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/online-gallery/on-line-gallery/obra/the-buffoon-sebastian-de-morra/The Nude Maja. (n.d.). Museo Nacional del Prado: Online Gallery. Retrieved February 13, 2014, from https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/online-gallery/on-line-gallery/obra/the-nude-maja/Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000-1900). (n.d.). Web art gallery, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000-1900). Retrieved February 11, 2014, from http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/velazque/07/0703vela.html