title: [My interpretation as a pediatrician of "Las Meninas"].
abstract: Las Meninas from Velázquez is one of the most important pictures in the world nevertheless, there is not an interpretation out of doubt of his meaning, in spite of all the studies written about it. After an original study of the history of Las Meninas, the persons painted, what are they doing, the Spanish culture on the time in what was painted and the historical life of the Infanta Margarita, the central personage of the picture, the author arrives to the conclusion about the possibility that she had a precocious puberty.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Valtueña Borque
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history; D011629:Puberty, Precocious / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain