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This is a painting of rather mediocre quality for which the artists drew on several ricordi from the stock at the family bottega. To cite an example, the horse and pair of dogs on the right specifical [+]
The daughter and pupil of Plácido Francés, a painter from Alicante, Fernanda took part in several public exhibitions from 1881 onwards, often successfully. The critics praised her great [+]
The composition derives from a lost work by Leonardo repeated by Yáñez on two other occasions with some variants. Here he includes a chalice and a consecrated Host, a Eucharistic referen [+]
The woman seated at the back of the carriage is an open allusion to the famous parricide immortalised by Sorolla in his painting Another Marguerite!! (Saint Louis, Missouri, Kemper Art Museum). With a [+]
This painting is among the few known works from Berruguete’s formative years in Florence and Rome, the latter depicted in the background. The bridle bit, the hand on the breast and the laurel wreath a [+]
According to Ovid, the marriage of Hippodamia to Pirithous sparked a mythical battle between their kinsmen, the lapiths and the centaurs. This theme appealed to artists as symbolising the battle betwe [+]
This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these pain [+]
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Cuadro de la serie con escenas de la vida de san Benito que adornaban el claustro del monasterio de San Martín. Felipe de Castro (ca. 1750/1764) se limitó a señalar que "las pinturas del claustro son [+]
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Juan de Zurbarán, the son of Francisco, was one of the most original and gifted Spanish still-life painters of the seventeenth century. This work is based on a similar still life by the artist, [+]
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All parts of this extraordinarily meticulous work are related to each other from a formal and iconographic standpoint. The Virgin appears in the foreground, where she occupies a considerable portion o [+]
The depiction of fruit was one of the specialities of this versatile Roman artist, who also painted battle scenes -his most appreciated works in his own lifetime- genre scenes and leafy orchard garden [+]
Catalogado a su ingreso en el Museo en 1847 como “retrato de la Sa infanta Da Carlota Reyna de Portugal” de Joaquín Inza (1736-1811), forma parte de un grupo de retratos de infantes y del príncipe Fer [+]
Emília Coranty, the first woman admitted to study arts and crafts at the Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona, was awarded a grant to continue her studies in Rome. There she made this copy of the s [+]
Composición dividida en dos partes: la inferior o terrenal, con los personajes de la Virgen, el Niño, San José y los pastores con ofrendas y la superior o celestial, con un grupo de ángeles portadores [+]
