Le consile oecuménique

Dalí developed the superb idea of Diego Velázquez showing the painter off as one of the subjects of the canvas.
He depicted himself as an artist painting the subject he originally worked on,
but gave the painting this way more depth.

He worked it out in a slightly different way :
he shows himself in a more open pose than Velázquez did in his work of 'Las Meninas'.
This fact together with all the Christian iconography of the (now) honourable Pope John XXIII,
The Trinity and his beloved subject, his wife Galá, finally results in an overwhelming diverse canvas.

Dalí seemed to have the exclusive right on making such surprising and at the same time flagrant combinations of ideas
and surrealistic dreams. It finally gave him his marks as best painter of the era or the twentieth century, if you like.