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This painting entered the Museum as an original work by Jan Both, attribution that has been maintained in the catalogues until the present day. In 1973 Valdivieso identifies it as the picture listed i [+]
By 1599, Francisco Pacheco had already begun work on his Libro de descripción de verdaderos retratos de ilustres y memorables varones (Book of Descriptions of True Portraits of Illustrious and [+]
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In the foreground, Diana holds a bow in her left hand while extracting an arrow from her quiver with the right. The moon appears over her forehead, and behind her, a fragment of the Zodiac includes th [+]
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Apollo appears in the foreground with drawn bow. Behind him, a fragment of the Zodiac shows the sign of Leo, and at the top: a winged figure holds the Sun.This painting and its companions (P307 to P31 [+]
The lack of an autograph work of this theme by Jacopo suggests that the idea for the composition came from Francesco at the end of the 1570s, by which time he had gained greater independence from his [+]
Two Cows in a Meadow is one of Paulus Potter`s characteristic cabinet paintings featuring domestic animals, which were generally much more accomplished than his large compositions. They may be interpr [+]
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This is the largest of the paintings that Lemaire, a French artist working in Rome, produced for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The architectural ruins and sculptural fragments ar [+]
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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 [+]
A masterpiece in the history of Western landscape painting, in which Velázquez set out his idea of landscape without any narrative excuse to justify it, this Roman scene and its companion work [+]
Nicolas Poussin has a curious relation to the Buen Retiro Palace. Úbea considers him the determinant artist among all those who took part in its decorative project. That could explain why he wa [+]
Francisco Domingo approaches the work of Diego Velasquez (1500-1600) in a free reinterpretation of the human types painted by that artist from Seville. A group of hunters take a rest during a hunt. Al [+]
The head of a young man wearing white sackcloth under a black cape -the colors of both Trinitarian and Dominican habits- his thin face and raw cheeks are presented in a three-quarters view, with an in [+]
