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This panel originally had an arched top and included a more open landscape with less leafy trees. At an unknown date the work must have suffered damage that affected the pictorial surface, resulting i [+]
The author of this work has been identified as the painter of an Adoration of the Magi signed, apocryphally, Hericus Blesius Fecit (Munich, Alte Pinakothek). The Museo del Prado’s work presents the sa [+]
Since the moment when it was decided that the present work is by Raphael but that the sitter is not Antonio Granvela, art historians have expended considerable efforts on identifying the sitter.The mo [+]
This triptych makes use of a traditional compositional scheme and iconography, with the principal scene in the central panel. However, the volumetric treatment of the figures reflects new Italian infl [+]
This painting represents the triple generation of Christ, a subject which was very popular at the time on account of the extensive devotion to Saint Anne, the Virgin’s mother. The artist shows her in [+]
Christ returned to life, triumphant alongside the sarcophagus that held his body for three days after his death on Golgotha, was a frequent subject in Correa´s work. The retable for the convent of the [+]
Having trained in Venice, probably with Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto worked in Treviso (1503-1506), Recanati (1506- 1508) and Rome (c. 1508-1510) before settling in Bergamo.There, between 1513 and [+]
Vicente Carducho is a paradigmatic figure in Spanish painting from the early decades of the seventeenth century, a period of transition from the Tuscan-Roman mannerism to so-called early naturalism. I [+]
On his deathbed, Saint Bernard is visited by the Virgin Mary, who places her right hand on his chest. She is accompanied by Saint Laurence and Saint Benedict. Two Bernadine Monks witness the scene fro [+]
This Charity, one of the most important works by the Tuscan painter Portelli, derives from a work on the same subject by Francesco Salviati (1510-1563) now in the Uffizi, Florence, emulating its compo [+]
Christ is presented as the Savior of the World, blessing humankind, between Saint John and the Virgin, who turn towards him. The three figures are shown three-quarters under arches with a complex goth [+]
Over the course of a century and a half, a particular manifestation of religious devotion developed in Spain that would become one of the realm´s foremost marks of collective identity -namely, the doc [+]
This triptych makes use of a traditional compositional scheme and iconography, with the principal scene in the central panel. However, the volumetric treatment of the figures reflects new Italian infl [+]
Beginning with the prototype of the Virgin sitting on a throne, David develops a new subject with Mary and Jesus in a landscape, resting during their Flight from Egypt. This became a much-repeated sub [+]
The panel has been extended at the top: the original part is one board of Baltic oak, horizontal in grain and about 27 cm high. Sections of the unpainted edges survive on all four sides. The last ring [+]
Like The Virgin and Child with a Spindle (P07864), this panel formed part of the altar of St Anne in Badajoz Cathedral, commissioned by the bishop of the time, Juan de Ribera (1532-1611). It is really [+]
This scene from the life of Saint Bernard depicts the Virgin Mary’s apparition to the Cistercian monk and the miraculous milk he received from her breasts as thanks for his devotion. He is accompanied [+]
Con la adquisición en 2008 de la tabla Sagrada Familia con ángel músico (P08009), el Museo del Prado completa el tríptico del Maestro de Francfort, que perteneció al convento dominico de Santa Cruz de [+]
