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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 [+]
Son of Philip V and Isabel Farnese, Louis Antonio of Bourbon was born July 25, 1727, became archbishop of Toledo on September 9, 1735, and became cardinal on December 9 of that year. In 1739, he also [+]
Paolo Veronese`s Penitent Magdalene, 1583, reflects the change occurring in Venetian religious painting around 1580. On one hand, the new order of priorities imposed by the Council of Trent (1545-63) [+]
San Juan Bautista aparece representado con el cordero de la pasión junto al cual descansa una cruz con la inscripción Ecce Agnus Dei en la filacteria. La obra, firmada y fechada en 1681, tiene la fina [+]
A portrait of Cardinal Carlos de Borja Cetellas Ponce de León (1664-1733), son of the IX Duke of Gandia. He was one of the most influential personages in Spain during the first half of the eigh [+]
This painting presents an event mentioned in the book of Genesis (18, 1. 19). Giambattista Tiepolo had depicted this subject earlier in a painting from the series he painted for the palace of the Arch [+]
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 [+]
El juego representado en este cartón para tapiz corresponde a la descripción del juego de bochas en el Diccionario de Autoridades de 1726: “Juego que se juega entre dos o más personas con unas bolas m [+]
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 [+]
The daughter of Philip V and Isabella Farnese, the sitter (1726-1746) married Louis Ferdinand, Dauphin of France. This portrait formed a pair with that of his brother Louis, a future cardinal. The for [+]
This drawing is a more complete variant on the central part of a drawing by Creti at the Albertina in Vienna. The composition is quite similar to a canvas with Adoration of the Shepherds from around 1 [+]
The son of painter Giovanni Maria Galli da Bibiena and brother of Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena, Francesco was raised in a family of artists and took an early interest in architecture and set design. He [+]
Originally in the collection of the 7th Marquis del Carpio, Spanish Ambassador in Rome (1676-82) and Viceroy of Naples (1682-87), this sculpture consists of a nude, Greco-Roman torso with some survivi [+]
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