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The Virgin Mary visits her cousin, Elisabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John, as told in the New Testament (Luke 1, 39-45). That is the moment when the Virgin sings the Magnificat. The two figures ca [+]
Leaning on a classical ruin, Saint Joseph looks at the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child in her lap. Jesus, in turn, is receiving a roll with the words Ecce Agnus Dei from Saint John. This Latin inscr [+]
The hand and forearm correspond, in reverse, to that of the Roman general Scipio Africanus in a composition of the Continence of Scipio, the appearance of which is recorded in an old copy in the Louvr [+]
An old (not unintelligent) attibution to Lelio Orsi is written on the reverse. In a note on the modern museum mount dated 1980, Sylvie Béguin has written "after Giulio Romano". In my opinion, t [+]
This is the most Raphaelesque of all the sixteenth-century Italian drawings in the Prado, the confident style of drawing in black chalk echoing that of Raphael´s own late drawings in the medium, above [+]
This and the drawing D1807, Standing warrior, resting his foot on the head of a dragon, are companions and have remained together from at least as long ago as the late eighteenth century, when they we [+]
This and the drawing D1806, Warrior with a shield, are companions and have remained together from at least as long ago as the late eighteenth century, when they were kept together in the same collecti [+]
