Painting illusions of time and space: Velázquez - Las Meninas

Las Meninas is Diego Velázquez's Masterpiece that both plays with our sense of reality, and does so in a fully realistic style hundreds of years ahead of his time. PAINTINGS ARTIST: Diego Velázquez Las Meninas (1656) Self Portrait ARTIST: Canaletto Rialto Bridge from the North ARTIST: Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and One of Their Children ARTIST: Lucas Cranach the Elder Martin Luther (c1532) ARTIST: Édouard Manet Self Portrait with Palette (1879) ARTIST: Claude Monet Impression, Sunrise (1872) ARTIST: George Inness Sunset in Georgia (1890) HUMAN This video is a product of my own creativity and human insight. The insights are mine, the quotes are from real (named) people, the talking head is me, using my own voice. Paintings are from human artists; video and images have been created in the real world. FAIR USE The copyright laws of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America recognises that there exists a 'fair use' of, or 'fair dealing' with, copyrighted content. For example, Section 107 of the US Copyright Act holds that "purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, ...scholarship or research is not an infringement of copyright". Should this video contain copyrighted works, I believe in good faith that this use is protected by such laws, and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the reasons noted in the previous sentence.