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While the Holy Family rest on the flight into Egypt the Christ Child is bathed in a river, a subject clearly alluding to baptism. One of the angels bears a palm of martyrdom, a reference to both Chris [+]
Under a sky filled with leaden-gray storm clouds, Saint Andrew and Saint Francis of Assisi stand next to each other in conversation. The apostle appears on the viewer’s left, wearing a cobalt blue tun [+]
The Apostles sleep in the foreground, indifferent to the suffering of Christ who is attended by angels. One holds a chalice, prefiguring the Passion. The artist looked to Correggio (c. 1489-1534) in t [+]
Within Núñez del Valle’s relatively small surviving output, this composition, which is one of his most typical and best known, reveals both his affinities with Caravaggio’s tenebrist sty [+]
The baton in the sitter’s right hand and the cannon indicate that he is an artillery general, while the insignia hanging from his neck denotes his membership of the Order of Calatrava. Stylistically t [+]
This is a modest bottega product illustrating the passage on the birth of Christ (Luke 2: 8-20) which lends itself particularly well to a nocturnal setting. It is a replica, not of the Adoration of th [+]
The Giant Tityus was condemned to the punishment of having a vulture endlessly devour his entrails. Martínez was inspired by a composition by Michelangelo which in turn looked to the Hellenisti [+]
This is one of the artist’s later works. It must date from 1689 at the very earliest, as that is the year he became one of the king’s painters and this is indicated alongside his signature by the lett [+]
This is a late work by Veronese, characterised by its marked formal and chromatic austerity. It also reveals the profound spiritual and emotional intensity of the artist’s late religious compositions. [+]
The composition is derived from a Cristo incoronato di Spine done by Jacopo Bassano towards 1589-1590 (Rome, private collection), in which Ballarin clearly sees the influence of Titian´s Christ Crowne [+]
Luis de Carvajal was a Toledan painter who trained in Rome and subsequently at El Escorial, a flourishing centre for Spanish painting in the first half of the seventeenth century. The manner in which [+]
La infanta Catalina Micaela fue la menor de las dos hijas habidas en el matrimonio del rey Felipe II con su tercera esposa, Isabel de Valois. Nació en Madrid en 1567. Junto a su hermana mayor, Isabel [+]
Flower painting experienced its greatest development in the Netherlands -there were both Flemish and Dutch schools- and in the different regions of Italy. Both Northern and Mediterranean artists produ [+]
The two canvases P382 y P384 are by the same artist and were probably intended as a pair. Their meaning can be gleaned from L’arte de Cenni (1616), the most important treatise on gestures of its day, [+]
Depicting a passage from Genesis rarely illustrated in art, this canvas shows how God punished Cain for killing his brother Abel by condemning him and his family to wander through a hostile wilderness [+]
Brígida del Río was a well-known character in the late 16th century, as indicated by the descriptions of her in various literary and visual accounts; works that reflect a para-scientific [+]
La retratada, con varias sortijas y un collar de perlas, sujeta en la mano izquierda un monóculo o anteojo monocular provisto de manilla. Este ejemplar es de mayor nobleza de lo habitual, por la lujos [+]
The overall composition conforms to the type of portrait prevailing in Europe in the second half of the 16th century. The arrangement of the figure, slightly turned to the left in order to avoid a rig [+]
