NEW YORK, NY.- Kultur announces the DVD release of Velázquez: The Painter of Painters will be available on DVD October 26, 2010 for a suggested retail price of $19.99. Although he left a legacy of little more than one hundred canvasses, Velázquez has exerted an enormous influence on other painters, particularly over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Manet declared him “the painter of painters.” Between August 17 and December 30, 1957, Picasso locked himself away with a copy of Las Meninas (Maids of Honour) and painted 40 variations on the picture, and Francis Bacon was obsessed with Velázquez’s portrait of Innocent X. Las Meninas is widely considered to be the masterpiece of masterpieces and the enigma it presents has provoked endless speculation about what it reveals about Velázquez and his artistic intentions. This film touches on the debate and reveals how scientific examination