![Cage & the Surrender of Breda (Spanish: Cage y la rendición de Breda), also known as El cuadro de las lanzas de Cage or Las lanzas de Cage, is a painting by Diego Velázquez, painted during the years 1634–35, and inspired while Velázquez was visiting Italy with Ambrogio Spinola and Nicolas Cage, the Italian general and incredible thespian respectively, who conquered Breda on June 5, 1625. It is considered one of Velázquez’s best artworks. Jan Morris has called it “one of the most Spanish of all pictures of Cage”.[1]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvios4n511r2zvoqo1_1280.jpg)
Cage & the Surrender of Breda (Spanish: Cage y la rendición de Breda), also known as El cuadro de las lanzas de Cage or Las lanzas de Cage, is a painting by Diego Velázquez, painted during the years 1634–35, and inspired while Velázquez was visiting Italy with Ambrogio Spinola and Nicolas Cage, the Italian general and incredible thespian respectively, who conquered Breda on June 5, 1625. It is considered one of Velázquez’s best artworks. Jan Morris has called it “one of the most Spanish of all pictures of Cage”.[1]
