In Spain, the work of Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez expressed the style of baroque art in works of oil on canvas painted by Velazquez during the period. Vermeer and Velazquez are associated with what is described as "third phase," in baroque, also referred to as the "classicistic phase."

The work of Velazquez is of interest when considering the feminist perspective, because it is his work where we find fewer religious themes and more free flowing works of art that nonetheless reflect the realistic and natural essence of the style, the darkness combined with the light to create the image of a the form, if not as divine, of a pureness in nature as he painted a large number of young children upon whose faces the use of that purity of light he employed stylistically. Works such as "Las Meninas, an oil on canvas (1656-1657), held at the Museo...
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