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Martín Rico was one of the leading Spanish landscape painters of the second half of the nineteenth-century. He was particularly interested in depicting tranquil stretches of water, and during h [+]
This is one of a series of twelve panels (P01646, P01647, P01648, P01649, P01650, P01651, P01652, P01653, P01654, P01655, P01656, P01657) that make up an apostolate that originally included a Savior o [+]
This scene is inspired by a passage from the Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid. Orpheus, the mythological Greek musician and poet, sung and played the lyre so sublimely that all the animals, even t [+]
Figura desnuda en fondo de paisaje. El paisaje es obra de Dughet y la figura de Carlo Maratti. [+]
This is a preparatory drawing for the etching Blow (G02157), which is Capricho 69. Together, the twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that constitute the basis for The Caprichos are known as The Dreams. Th [+]
In her 1983 catalogue, Mena Marques rightly brought attention to the very high quality of this drawing and suggested the style could be Sienese, from the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning [+]
El dibujo lleva una atribución genérica a Tiepolo, pero su comparación con otros hace pensar que sea de mano de Lorenzo, realizado con una técnica más cuidadosa y fina. Debió de servirle de preparació [+]
This preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from the Caprichos does not correspond to any specific etching. Together, the twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that constitute the basis for The Capric [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 18, And His House Catches Fire (G02106) is one of the twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings from the Dreams series that are the basis for The Caprichos in i [+]
This sculpture reproduces a Greek original of around 410 BC by a follower of Polyclitus. There are numerous copies of that work, known as the "Dresden Youth type" in reference to the best and most com [+]
This is the last portrait of Vibia Sabina (83-136 A. D.), wife of the emperor Hadrian. It does not represent her at her real age (some 48 years), but is a highly idealised and rejuvenated image. Her h [+]
This sculpture is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original dating from the second-first century B.C. Stripped of the baroque additions that distorted it, it is part of a large cycle of Venuses linked by [+]
The Roman image of Jupiter, inspired by a statue of Zeus from the fifth century B. C., shows the god wearing the aegis (protective cloak) which, according to Homer, was used by Zeus as a weapon to cre [+]
This fragment of a Roman statue shows Silenus holding the infant Dionysus in his arms. It is a copy of a Greek original made between 290 and 280 B. C. by one of Lysippus´s pupils. The realistic [+]
Sophocles (497/6-406/5 b.c.e.) was already famous during his lifetime as his tragedies triumphed at the Dionysian Feasts in Athens more frequently than any others. He is represented with a thin cord a [+]
The Roman copy of a late Hellenistic model (125-100 B. C.) which, on account of its relaxed posture, recalls Praxiteles’ art. The god, who is leaning on a herm, a distinctive feature of the late first [+]
The portrait of the writer Xenophon (430-354 b.c.e.), who was a disciple of Socrates in Athens and later commanded an army serving the Persians and Spartans, was identified in 1949, when a herm inscri [+]
The body is a Roman copy of a Hellenic original from around 270 B.C.E. which may represent a philosopher of the Epicurean school. The head is a Baroque copy of the type known as pseudo-Seneca. It is m [+]
