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This full-length portrait by Pompeo Batoni shows a young English nobleman dressed in a scarlet coat, posing against the Roman countryside. The picture conforms to the Grand Tour portrait model of whic [+]
In October 1777, Goya received a commission to paint 20 cartoons for tapestries intended to decorate the walls of the Prince and Princess of Asturias´s bedchamber and its anteroom in the palace of El [+]
This Adoration of the Shepherds, signed and dated 1625, was executed in the final stage in Wtewael`s career. The intellectual approach to the scene (St Luke 2:15-18), which derives its emotive force f [+]
The event depicted in this painting by Antonio Carnicero illustrates the interest in scientific advances characteristic of the Enlightenment, a historical period from the second half of the 18th centu [+]
This is one of Bellevois`s characteristic seascapes designed to capture the atmospheric effects of the North Sea. Accordingly, in the rendering of the various elements -figures, vessels and background [+]
This is a sketch for one of the frescoes on the gospel side of the Royal Chapel at the Royal Palace of Aranjuez. Painted in 1778-1779, those frescoes of Saint Luke Painting the Virgin present the sain [+]
The date of this painting has been the subject of critical debate for over a century. The 1889 edition of the Prado catalogue states that it was signed but fails to mention a date. The 1910 version de [+]
Both the royal inventories and Stchavinsky (1912) identify this scene as the story of Hecuba, wife of Priam of Troy. Wichmann (1923) disagrees, believing it to be the Finding of the bodies of Hero and [+]
The sitter is presented more than three-quarter length, looking directly at the viewer. He stands in a room with a curtain on the right and an end wall with a pilaster. On the table behind him are a s [+]
This is a sketch for the vault above the high altar in the chapel of Aranjuez palace. God the Father is enthroned and embraces the Mystic Lamb, while angels spread the apocalyptic message inscribed on [+]
The prophet Isaiah is depicted on clouds, surrounded by angels and pointing to one of them, who holds a scroll with the following Latin text concerning the birth of the Messiah: “Behold, a virgin shal [+]
This is a cartoon for a tapestry to be hung over a window, with the figure of a Majo playing the guitar and a background of landscape with three other people. The resulting tapestry was intended for t [+]
This simple, intimate portrait based on a range of grey tones is one of the few known examples of portraiture in the artist´s work. Ribelles may have known the celebrated poet Quintana in his youth th [+]
A street seller offers her wares in the form of woodland haws. Dressed as a maja and surrounded by cloaked men, she openly flirts with them, in contrast to the coy attitude of the woman in the pair to [+]
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in the Netherlandsin the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early invento [+]
The opulence of Boel’s still lifes, their rich textures and colours and the occasional use of a satirical tone make him one of the most original still-life painters of the period. The boy’s enigmatic [+]
This canvas belongs to the series of 20 cartoons for tapestries commissioned from Goya by Anton Raphael Mengs in October 1777. They depict scenes from contemporary life and were designed for the bedch [+]
This panel depicts an episode from the life of Alexander the Great, at the end of his Indian campaign. The Indian philosopher Calanus, before his funeral pyre and sensing his imminent death, invites A [+]
