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Court Painter, Director of the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and a key artistic figure in the period, Bayeu was Goya’s brother-inlaw and their relations were at times extremely tense. This portra [+]
Rodríguez de Miranda was a leading landscape painter during the reigns of Philip V and his successors Ferdinand VI and Charles III. These three landscapes owe a debt to the seventeenth-century [+]
This is a study for a ceiling fresco in the Roman church of San Giovanni Calibita in the Fatebenefratelli hospital. Due to its beauty and monumentality it was used to decorate the sacristy in the Roya [+]
This canvas forms a pair with that of Ruins with a Woman preaching. It depicts the Apostle Paul preaching, standing between the portico of a ruined temple and the temple of Vesta with the pyramid of G [+]
Retrato de la segunda esposa del pintor Antonio Gonzalez Velázquez, Manuela María Teresa Cayetana Tolosa y Aviñón (Madrid, 11-7-1740 - Madrid, 7-12-1797), con quien casó el 8 de abril de 1745. De su m [+]
This allegorical work, signed on the column lying on the ground in the centre of the composition, shows two women in Roman garb sitting on clouds. Representing Justice and Peace, they embrace and seem [+]
The child in the portrait appears to be the Infanta María Isabel (1743-1749), the third daughter of Charles of Bourbon and Maria Amalia of Saxony, whose birth was received with special joy afte [+]
La reina Mariana de Neoburgo (1664-1740), segunda esposa de Carlos II, lujosamente vestida, cabalga sobre un hermoso caballo blanco. Es evidente en él el deseo de imitar o emular a Velázquez, pues la [+]
Using an arrow, symbol of Divine Love, the Christ Child pierces the flaming heart that the kneeling Saint Augustine (354-430), one of the Fathers of the Church, holds out to him in his right hand. The [+]
The artist has arranged the objects in the traditional manner, locating them in the immediate foreground in order to achieve greater visual impact. The result is a simple composition but one with a ma [+]
A group of youth play, accompanied by music in a garden setting. Two of them begin to dance, while others form small scenes of gallantry around them. This elegant courtly composition is completed by t [+]
Rodríguez de Miranda fue un destacado paisajista que desarrolló su actividad bajo los reinados sucesivos de Felipe V, Fernando VI y Carlos III. Este paisaje se encuadra dentro de la tradición flamenca [+]
A Pietà made by this Neapolitan painter during his stay in Madrid (1753-1763). The group of Christ and the angel holding him corresponds to the fresco of the Holy Trinity in the chapel at Madri [+]
The principal focus of this canvas and its pair, Ruins with Saint Paul preaching, is the splendour of Roman ruins and the evocation of the classical tradition. Within a setting of archaeological remai [+]
One of the few landscapes by Giaquinto, this canvas decorated the Infanta’s bedroom in the Buen Retiro palace. The monumental hunt recreates the classical world through a harmonious vision of nature i [+]
An image of Saint John the Baptist as a child. He wears an animal skin and sits on a boulder from which water flows. The background is landscape. A lamb is beside him. In his right hand he holds a sta [+]
La fe de san José fue probada con el embarazo de María. Como era hombre justo y no quería ponerla en evidencia, resolvió repudiarla en secreto. Así lo había planeado cuando un ángel se le apareció en [+]
En la parte inferior los apóstoles se agrupan alrededor del sepulcro vacío de la Virgen, uno arrodillado en primer término alza la cabeza y otro tras él extiende los brazos. En la parte superior la Vi [+]
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