Isabella Farnese (1692-1766), the daughter of Odoardo II, Prince of Parma, and of Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, married Philip V of Spain in 1714. This portrait is a replica of one made in Parma by Moli [+]
Michel-Ange Houasse, son of the painter René-Antoine Houasse (c.1645-1710), had enjoyed a long career during the reign of Louis XIV of France (r.1643-1715). From 1715 until his death, Michel-An [+]
Felipe (1720-1765), the son of Philip V and Isabella Farnese, married Louise Elisabeth of France, daughter of Louis XV, in 1739. With the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) he received the family duchies [+]
This portrait of a young Charles III is typical of Ranc´s portraits of children. It shows the future monarch as an Infante, years before his departure for Parma and Naples to occupy thrones his mother [+]
The young sitter, here slightly older than in the portrait of him in his study also painted by Ranc (Museo del Prado), is shown with the symbols of military power: a helmet, a sword resting on a large [+]
This work shows a taste for the monumental and straightforward. During those years, Spanish court painters of quite varied training underwent a process in which their compositions grew clearer, more s [+]
Los cuatro lienzos de esta serie (P186 a P189) fueron adquiridos por 1.500 pesetas a doña Pilar de la Torre el 21 de junio de 1876, en un lote de copias que forma la única serie completa conservada de [+]
Panini depicts the New Testament episode of Christ expelling the traders and money-changers from the Temple. The canvas may be a preliminary sketch for a larger composition. It was acquired by Charles [+]
El cuadro muestra a la futura reina de España, hija de Felipe de Borbón (1720-1765) y de Luisa Isabel de Francia, duques de Parma. Nació en la capital del ducado el 9 de diciembre de 1751; contrajo ma [+]
This pagan scene shows the offer that the Bacchants, or followers of Bacchus, made to their god. In the center, a priest offers the sacrifice on an altar in front of the statue of the deity crowned wi [+]
On August 10, 1759, Ferdinand VI died without a descendant. As a result, his stepbrother Charles, then King of Naples and Sicily, inherited the Spanish throne. The first of seven children of Philip V [+]
Pese a su apariencia femenina, se trata de un retrato de varón ataviado con la indumentaria acostumbrada en la corte de Lorena para los niños de hasta cuatro años. Hubo de ser enviado como regalo por [+]
Esta escena bíblica, perteneciente al Nuevo Testamento, refleja una anécdota de la juventud de Cristo, cuando estuvo disputando por cuestiones religiosas con los doctores judíos de la ley Mosaica, en [+]
In his interpretation of the traditional subject of the Holy Family Houasse evokes the French tradition of the second half of the 17th century century, imbuing it with the currently fashionable Italia [+]
Born in Slovenia, Trevisani studied painting in Venice and moved to Rome around 1678. This depiction of Mary Magdalene, a work that belonged to Philip IV, combines a Roman classicism with Trevisani’s [+]
La figura en pie en el centro lleva en la mano una espada flameante, y en la izquierda, el escudo; en la parte baja, las figuras de los demonios, desnudos y contorsionados, ofrecen resistencia al arcá [+]
La composición enmarcada a tinta presenta a la izquierda a Ariadna sentada; a la derecha, Baco la corona en pie y un fauno arrodillado vierte el vino en un ánfora. Al fondo, Sileno, transportado por s [+]
The present head, to which the bust was added in the eighteenth century, probably belonged to one of the statues of captured Dacians (from Dacia, the region to the West of the Black Sea) in Trajan’s F [+]