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This work belongs to a group from the History of Rome series for the Buen Retiro Palace. Dedicated to depictions of Roman public pastimes, the group includes athletes, gladiators, chariots, animal fig [+]
The frieze arrangement of the figures places this work in the painter`s classical phase, which began in 1594, the same year as the date on this painting. In Van Thiel`s view, it could be the picture w [+]
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El retrato sedente, con las piernas hacia el espectador, subraya la cortedad del personaje, cubierto con una indumentaria de rico cromatismo, en la que destacan los rojos y los verdes. Esa riqueza cro [+]
In each of these paintings (P596, P597), the central motif around which the entire composition is organised is a glass flower vase, the base of which rests on a stone surface. The flask-shaped vessel [+]
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This fragment -the support is cut on all four sides- is perhaps inspired by an engraving of Van Honthorst`s original The Denial of Saint Peter in Minneapolis, dated about 1620-25 (Posada Kubissa, T.: [+]
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Within the large series of paintings dedicated to the history of Rome, this work and Meleager’s Hunt (P2320) belong to a small group of scenes from mythology and the history of Antiquity. This is undo [+]
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