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Together with its pair (P-8153), this canvas is an interesting example of Cano’s early work when he was working in Seville and favoured a naturalist style. Until 2013 the Prado’s collection did not in [+]
This scene is based on Las moradas [The mansions] (1588), the text by the Saint in which she describes her “spiritual marriage” to Christ. Like its pair (P-8152), this canvas was part of the altarpiec [+]
A depiction of one of the miracles of Saint Isidore the Laborer (12th century), the patron saint of Madrid, who made many miracles. Here, after his son had fallen into a well, the water miraculously r [+]
This scene from the life of Saint Bernard (twelfth century), depicts the moment when the saint received a stream of milk from a statue of the Virgin and Child, on the altar. A Cardinal watches the mir [+]
This canvas was part of the decoration of the chapel dedicated to that saint at the Franciscan convent of Santa María de Jesús (known as San Diego de Alcalá) in Alcalá de H [+]
The holy evangelist sits on a boulder with a book in his hands. He looks to the heavens where a tenuous light reveals a vision of the woman and dragon of the Apocalypse. The composition is similar to [+]
Saint Peter was sleeping when an angel woke him in order to break his chains and release him from prison. The stone block on which the saint is sleeping and the keys and sandals on the floor are his i [+]
Saint Jerome was meditating in solitude when an angel sounding the trumpet of the Last Judgment appeared to him. This was a particularly popular subject with seventeenth-century artists and Alonso Can [+]
A native of the province of Nursia, the holy abbot that founded the Benedictine Order in the sixth century appears inside his cell, where he witnesses the apparition of a globe held by three angels in [+]
En un paisaje, delante de un grueso árbol, aparecen San José con el Niño de su mano. La escena aparece encuadrada en un marco arquitectónico fingido, flanqueada por columnas corintias, como si se trat [+]
El dibujo corresponde al periodo de madurez del pintor, en el que acumulaba ya toda su larga experiencia y conocimientos como dibujante, como se desprende del inteligente uso de las aguadas, es decir, [+]
Representación del Santo, de cuerpo entero, de pie, con el Niño Jesús en los brazos.Según Wethey no es obra de Cano. En el Inventario de 1857 aparece recogido tan solo como obra de escuela de Cano. Pu [+]
Este dibujo presenta a San Juan en la madurez (se le puede representar en la juventud o en la vejez). Esta sentado a la izquierda, posiblemente sobre las raíces de un árbol, sujetando una tablilla par [+]
La Virgen se encuentra sentada sobre unas nubes, en la parte superior derecha, y el Niño se aleja de su madre para dirigirse hacia San Félix, cuyos brazos abiertos esperan al pequeño que ha sido confi [+]
The Virgin appears at the right of the composition, with extended arms. At the left, Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine hand a canvas with the likeness of Saint Dominic to the kneeling monk. Thi [+]
This is one of a set of preparatory drawings for a series of canvases on the life of Saint Dominic that were painted for the Dominican convent of la Santa Cruz in Granada. None of the paintings has su [+]
Kneeling at the left, with his left arm around the lamb, young Saint John raises his eyes to the nude Christ Child standing at his side. The scene is presented in a heart-shaped cartouche. This is a p [+]