Édouard Manet praised him as the “painter of all painters” and Pablo Picasso dedicated an entire series of paintings to him – but who was Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) really? With “Las Meninas”, the Spanish king’s court painter created one of the most influential paintings of all time and left behind a life’s work comprising over 200 paintings. This documentary traces the echoes of a brilliant painter who remains an enigma to this day.