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A devotional work that shows the Virgin against a delicate gold background. A window sill inscribed with the signature and a fragment of the mantle establish a realist caesura with the gaze of the vie [+]
The famous Flemish painter is portrayed almost full-length, sitting in a chair and wearing red robes and a fur coat. This landscape painter and contemporary of Van Dyck had no left arm, which is clear [+]
The artist, a follower of Geertgen tot sins Jans (1445/65-1485/95), approached Passion subjects with intense drama. In order to achieve strong expressions, he does not hesitate to deliberately distort [+]
This is the left panel of the Altar Piece of the Pietà, Saint Michael and Saint Catherine from the church of Santa María in Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza). The painter, originally fro [+]
The painter of this work was a collaborator of the sculptor Gil de Siloe and was familiar with Northern art. John the Baptist, recognisable by his clothing and by the lamb on the book, has been painte [+]
This is one of Bernat’s early works and is very similar to the work of Bermejo in the anatomy, colour and slim proportions of the figures in it -Saint John, the Magdalene, Longinus- as well as the lit [+]
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A bust of Christ, dressed in purple and with the holy halo. He appears as the Savior of Humanity over a dark background. This is a replica of a work by the same name signed by Giovanni Bellini (“IOANN [+]
During his ascetic retreat to the desert, Saint Antony was subjected to numerous temptations by the devil. On one occasion, the devil disguised himself as a seductive woman in order to draw him into t [+]
The wound in Christ`s side was inflicted after his death (John 19:34). The two angels, blue and dressed in blue, are apparently cherubim. Saint John the Evangelist steps forward to support the weeping [+]
The painting, which comes from the church of Santa María in Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza), is made up of five panels. The central panel represents the Resurrection. On either side of it are [+]
Large-format versions of the Virgin holding the dead body of Christ, like those at Badajoz Cathedral and at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, gave way in Morales’s oeuvre to smaller c [+]
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 [+]
The Virgin Mary, with the Christ Child on her lap, is worshiped by the Catholic Kings, Isabel (1451-1504) and Fernando (1452-1516), two of their children, and others. On the right of the composition, [+]
This and five other panels at the Prado Museum (P06897, P06899, P06900, P06901, P06902), are some of the finest examples of the collaboration between Rodrigo and Francisco de Osona. They were probably [+]
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 [+]
The Virgin holds the Christ Child in her arms, flanked by two saints in a Sacra Conversazione. The saint on the left has been identified as Mary Magdalene and the one on the right as either Saint Ursu [+]
This painting is a slight variation of the central panel in the predella of the Don Álvaro de Luna Altar Piece which is in the Toledo cathedral (doc. 1488). Mary, helped by Saint John and Nicod [+]
