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Born in Antwerp in 1609, Omazur was a friend and admirer of Murillo’s. He established himself as a merchant in Seville where he wrote poetry and collected painting. The austerity of the image links it [+]
The earliest documentary reference to this painting appears in the 1772 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro, in which the setting is attributed to Viviano Codazzi (1603/4-1672) and the figures [+]
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in Flanders and Holland in the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early i [+]
These two paintings (P7607 and P7608) were first shown in Amsterdam in 1858. On that occasion the sitters were identified as Lambert Witsen and his wife Sara Nuyts owing to the woman`s purported simil [+]
Murillo pintó al rey Fernando III el Santo en varias ocasiones. De todas las versiones que hizo, ésta es la de tamaño más reducido, si bien es la única en la que el santo se representa de cuerpo enter [+]
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The Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, arrived in Rome in 1657, escaping the plague that had devastated his native city and his family. According to his biographer Lione Pasc [+]
The Suidas mention this drawing as perhaps the composition of one of the chiaroscuro frescoes of the Labors of Hercules, now lost, formerly on the façade, but possibly in the interior, of the p [+]
Cervera Vera (Escorial en BN no C20-a, Real Biblioteca Pública no B31) describe tres ediciones de estas estampas iluminadas editadas por Joan Baleu en Ámsterdam, la primera la edición latina de 1662, [+]
This portrait is closely based on Charles III in hunting Dress by Francisco de Goya. The monarch, wearing a dress coat, has the same pose as in the painting, leaning forward slightly and with sloping [+]
The vessel, similar to O44, is formed by three fragments of agate and five enamelled gold mounts. The body is an ancient piece of stone with a broad gold mount on the edge decorated with an enamelled [+]
A high cup formed by an ancient fragment of serpentine and a foot and stem of heliotrope. The bowl, with a rectangular mouth, is joined by a ring mount and enamelled leaves to the balustroid stem, wit [+]
