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The family of this celebrated Madrid artist was originally French, and his own aesthetic roots lie outside Spain. In this self-portrait we see him sitting in a chair with cabriole legs, dressed in sum [+]
The Virgin with the Pomegranate is an exceptional work painted during one of the key periods in the history of art, in Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, in the first quarter of the fifteenth centur [+]
María de la Concepción Serrano y Domínguez was the eldest child of General Serrano, the Duke of Torre. She was born in Havana in 1860, which her father was Commander in Chief of C [+]
This architectural landscape showing the ancient Roman city of Benevento, near Naples, was painted around 1759 by Antonio Joli of Modena. A painter of theatre sets and vedute, Joli worked for theatres [+]
A sumptuously dressed and armed dwarf holds a ruler´s staff, an attribute of power that cannot have corresponded to his status. He was probably one of the court buffoons, who were showered with presen [+]
Sorolla painted this portrait of Aureliano de Beruete y Moret (1876–1922) the same year he portrayed his father, the painter Aureliano de Beruete, and a year after he painted his mother, María [+]
The lone figure of Saint Stephen is shown on the right of the composition with his hands crossed on his breast and his eyes raised to the heavens as he is stoned by his executioners. Cavallino was a N [+]
The Victorious Hannibal is the first documented work by Goya. He painted it in Rome in 1771 in order to submit it that year to the competition held by the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Parma whe [+]
Este oratorio portátil es una pieza excepcional que aúna dos delicados trabajos de Damián Forment y Juan de Juanes, figuras fundamentales del Renacimiento en la Corona de Aragón. La representación cen [+]
On the lower part of the drawing, in chalk, “Goya” on the left, and “1818” on the right. On the lower part of the sheet, in ink, by the hand of Felipe de Arrojo: “(hasta los numeros son echos de / man [+]
