Visio Tondalii fue el título de un poema anónimo del siglo XII de contenido moralizante, impreso en Amberes en 1482, que es considerado como una de las fuentes literarias de la obra de El Bosco. [+]
This triptych is the principal creation and the work that has given the name to an anonymous follower of Rogier van der Weyden, previously identified as Vrancke van der Stockt. When open the triptych [+]
These panels (P02838, P02839, P02840), along with a fourth one in a private collection, illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio´s Decameron. This [+]
El pintor ha representado a una joven semidesnuda apoyada sobre cojines y paños de brocado, rodeada por tres niños. A su lado aparece el cisne en que Júpiter se ha transformado para seducir a la mucha [+]
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Apollo appears in the foreground with drawn bow. Behind him, a fragment of the Zodiac shows the sign of Leo, and at the top: a winged figure holds the Sun.This painting and its companions (P307 to P31 [+]
The life-sized figure that represents the planet Mercury holds the caduceus in his left hand and points with the index finger of his extended right hand. Behind him, a fragment of the zodiac presents [+]
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Luini shows the influence Leonardo da Vinci had in the area around Milan, although he only adopts the latter´s models and some formal aspects. The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist was a private [+]
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Dürer made this panel and its companion, Eve (P02178) upon returning from his second trip to Italy in 1505. Both works constitute an effort to synthesize what he had learned there, in search of a [+]
Like the painting of Adam (P02177), represented on a separate panel, Eve´s unstable posture, her rhythmical movements and her affected gestures are sometimes interpreted as a return to earlier models [+]
In 1954 this work, then in the Adanero Collection, was published by Angulo Íñiguez who unhesitatingly attributed it to Yáñez de la Almedina, or at least, his workshop. This [+]
Wearing a white tunic and bearing the standard of victory, Christ leans toward Adam and Eve who, nude, hope to be rescued from Limbo and taken to the Kingdom of Heaven. This passage appears in the Apo [+]
When Parmigianino left his native city of Parma to move to Rome in 1524 he took this painting with him and presented it to Pope Clement VII. This is the artist´s first mature work and one that already [+]
This scene portrays the moment described in the Old Testament (Genesis 22, 1-19) in which, at the orders of Yahweh, Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son Isaac as an offering. Seeing that Abraham foll [+]
Christ appears above a rainbow with his feet resting on the globe of the Earth and his arms raised. He is flanked by Mary and Saint John the Baptist, and besides them, the twelve apostles. Two trumpet [+]
Death has taken hold of an older woman who is in turn trying to pull along a voluptuous young woman who seems to be resisting. Death holds an hourglass and a broken lance, on the lower tip of which a [+]