Velázquez Exhibition at the National Gallery

I know that this painting hasn't been included in that exhibition but it's my favourite one :)

Be honest - I really do not know what that rumour is about. All those celebrities visiting it and all this crowd. So many of them that you hardly can see paintings...

"For the first time in Britain, a major exhibition traces the career of one of the very greatest painters - Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660).

From his beginnings in Seville, 'Velázquez' follows the artist's move to Madrid and appointment as court painter to Philip IV, his two trips to Italy, to his final days and his knighthood.(...)

Drawing on the National Gallery's own rich holdings and major loans from the Museo del Prado and other collections, this exhibition includes almost half of the world's surviving works by Velázquez. It demonstrates the artist's extraordinary development through great examples of his religious and mythological paintings, alongside his portraits."

Oh, of course, it is a nice exhibition and Velazquez himself is a great painter but, for example, we can say the same about Holbein and there wasn't so big publicity about his exhibition at the Tate Britain. I would even dare to say that Holbein exhibition seems to me much better that Velazquez one at the National Gallery. Of course the painting and painter choice is beyond the consideration, as de gustibus non disputandum est, but an organisational side (has somebody mention the crowd at the National Gallery despite carefully issued time tickets?), reference material and thothoughtful composition of artefacts is in my opinion much better at the Tate.