In 1887, Carlota Rosales became the first woman to be awarded a grant to study painting at the Spanish Academy in Rome, and upon her return to Madrid, she had an outstanding career. With frankness, di [+]
Considered to be, with good reason, the most beautiful nude in nineteenth-century Spanish painting, this work provides eloquent testimony of the modernity that made Rosales stand out in the Spanish ar [+]
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 extraordinary historical painting -as appealing as it is disquieting- is one of the first and best examples of the fascination that Joanna of Castile (1479-1555) held for nineteenthcentury Spanis [+]
Rosales depicts the moment when the Catholic Queen dictates her last will and testament at Medina del Campo on 12 October 1504, just days before she died. Isabel stands out in a royal chamber almost i [+]
This painting captures a moment in the Battle of Tetuan, when Spanish and Moroccan troops fought each other as part of the war between those two countries in 1859 and 1860. The Moroccan troops shoot a [+]
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After revolutionizing the painting of his time with Queen Isabel la Católica dictating her Last Will and Testament (P4624), Rosales again shook the very foundations of the Spanish art world whe [+]
This study is an initial idea for the composition of the final canvas which the artist devised through numerous preparatory studies and drawings, the majority in the Prado. Rosales tried out the colou [+]
This is Rosales’s last history painting, which was left unfinished on his death. It reveals his working method, which is relatively free in this case. The retinue of Joan of Castile, who is anxious to [+]
One of the most important works by Rosales to have remained in private hands, this canvas exemplifies the artist’s adaptation of history painting to a small format characteristic of the end of his sho [+]
This work recalls the Spanish tradition in sculpture, and particularly the work of Gregorio Fernández (1576-1636), as well as the classical tradition of sleeping bacchantes. Vallmitjana, howeve [+]