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The Garden of Earthly Delights is Bosch’s most complex and enigmatic creation. For Falkenburg the overall theme of The Garden of Earthly Delights is the fate of humanity, as in The Haywain (P02052), a [+]
The panel shows three different scenes: in the distance on the left Salome’s dance, and on the right Salome is giving Herodias the Baptist’s head. In the foreground the beheading has already taken pla [+]
The Virgin appears seated in a walled garden, an allusion to the hortus conclusus or enclosed garden, which symbolizes her perpetual virginity. In her arms she holds the Christ Child, who takes an app [+]
After being brought to Iria, in Galicia, by boat -the scene visible in the background of the painting- Saint James’s body was carried in a cart pulled by two bulls. In this painting, Athanasius and Th [+]
Se denomina Maestro de Miraflores al autor de las seis tablas (P00705-P00710) dedicadas al Bautista que proceden de la cartuja burgalesa, en las que muestra volúmenes simplificados y figuras sumidas e [+]
The anonymous artist of the six panels (P-705–P710) dedicated to John the Baptist that come from the charterhouse in Burgos is known as the Maestro de Miraflores. The paintings are characterised by si [+]
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, [+]
The painting shows a luxurious domestic interior. The window at the far end contains a stained glass scene of the Anunciation, an allusion to Christ’s incarnation. The Virgin Mary receives the baby Sa [+]
The scene represented in this painting is not one that is usually depicted, and it is of a very similar composition to scenes showing the arrest of Christ, whose precursor John was. The difference is [+]
Ximénez employs a rare iconography for the Trinity here which shows all three figures in human form. God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, seated on a throne, hold Christ, represented as Salv [+]
After Saint James the Greater was beheaded, his followers and disciples took his body to the ship that would take him from Jaffa to Galicia. Behind this scene, Herod Agrippa and his court watch what i [+]
Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish Baroque artist, was also a humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat. In 1628, Rubens went to Madrid to meet with Philip IV, King of Spain (1621-1665), as part of hi [+]
This triptych consists of five panels, the central one depicting a bust of Christ with a halo incorporating a cross. He presides over the composition, flanked on the inside of the lateral panels by Sa [+]
There are very few preserved likenesses of Isabella the Catholic (1451-1504), whom the sources describe as a woman with a cheerful character, white skin, blue eyes and fair hair. Interrupted in her re [+]
This is part of a fresco originally in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome, from where it was removed from the wall just before 1907, the year it entered the Prado with an attribution to [+]
A former owner of this impressive drawing believed it to be from the hand of the Bolognese painter Bartolomeo Bagnacavallo, who, according to Vasari, travelled to Rome together with Biagio Pupini (act [+]
A cross-section of the sanctuary of the church at the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo, founded by queen Elizabeth I in 1477. This image of the proposed construction differs considerably f [+]
