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This likeness of the Franciscan clergyman is a significant example of elongated bust portraits that are quiet customary in the Western figurative tradition. Such works allow a closer approach to the m [+]
Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE) was the sovereign of Egypt and the last representative of its final royal family, the Ptolemaic dynasty. Feeling that all was lost after her armies and those of her Roman [+]
This painting is of considerable interest as there are very few surviving works by this artist, who was a fine example of the last generation of great decorators from Madrid. The architectural setting [+]
Here we are presented with a young man, elegantly dressed in black, standing within a landscape beside a horse whose mane is richly adorned with blue ribbons and bows. The man wears his hair very long [+]
The Virgin’s facial type, the confident drawing and the forceful rendering of the spatial planes originally led this work to be attributed to Claudio Coello. But in 1986 more precise knowledge of the [+]
This canvas is one of a group of portraits collected by María Luisa de Orleans (1662-1689), first wife of Carlos II of Spain, which would become part of the Royal Collection. Some of these pain [+]
Towards the edges of two moulded stone shelves rest two bronze vases with broad decorated bases and slender stems embraced, in one case by a group of tritons (P550) and, in the other by, a group of mi [+]
Evoking the model of the great equestrian portraits painted for the Spanish Habsburgs by Titian, Rubens and Velázquez, Giordano offers his own idealised and triumphal depiction of Maria Anna of [+]
As Lafuente Ferrari (1941) pointed out when publishing this work, it is a significant example of the passionately baroque tone of late 17th-century painting in Madrid. The same critic mentions the cle [+]
Charles II is depicted in armour, wearing the emblem of the Golden Fleece and an ornate neck tie in the French style, an accessory he favoured when outside Madrid from around 1677. Despite these forma [+]
En el plano superior aparece la Virgen sentada sobre una nube sostenida por ángeles; abajo y en sombra, ángeles músicos. El artista señala la existencia de planos a través del color y del detalle, más [+]
The daughter of Gaston de France and granddaughter of Henry IV of France, she was born at the Louvre on May 29, 1627. First called Mademoiselle d´Orléans, she was later known as the Grande Made [+]
This splendid painting, which came from the Buen Retiro Palace, Madrid (where it was cited in a 1794 inventory), was until recently attributed to Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo (1626-1693), based on the h [+]
Various gentlemen in Carlos IV-style clothing gather in front of the palace of the Marquis of Dos Aguas in Valencia. They are accompanied by a pack of dogs and various lackeys. Domingo´s technique is [+]
Towards the edges of two moulded stone shelves rest two bronze vases with broad decorated bases and slender stems embraced, in one case by a group of tritons (P550) and, in the other by, a group of mi [+]
Obra que forma parte de la serie de bocetos para los frescos de la escalera de El Escorial, que narra los episodios más significativos de la Batalla de San Quintín. Según parece, estos frescos son lo [+]
El retrato, procedente de la colección real, probablemente ingresó en la misma como regalo de Dorotea Sofía de Neoburgo, madre de Isabel de Farnesio, a su hermana la reina Mariana de Neoburgo, quien c [+]
The eagle and weapons are part of a funerary monument from the period of Emperor Augustus (27 B.C.-14 A.D.). This sculpture was found with many other works in the country villa of Marcus Valerius Mess [+]
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