This is a preparatory sketch for the painting of the main altarpiece of the Chapel of Saint Anthony at Madrid´s church of San Francisco el Grande. It was part of the decoration of the church promoted [+]
At a harbour with ruins in the background, a young woman wearing an annoyed expression gathers the catch accompanied by a handsome sailor in a Phrygian cap who gestures authoritatively towards the you [+]
At a small Mediterranean harbour with a fortress in the background, a prosperous gentleman examines the fish a beautiful fisherwoman offers him, while an elderly woman seems to have greater expectatio [+]
Outside the entrance to the same fortress that can be glimpsed in the background of Fisherfolk, the gentleman now embarks with his elegantly dressed new wife, whom he has taken away from her old life. [+]
Sebastián Aparicio (1502-1600) was born in La Gudiña (Orense) and first worked as an agricultural labourer. In 1533 he went to Mexico where he became a landowner then entered the Francis [+]
En el cantro sobre nubes y el creciente de la luna, la Inmaculada con las manos cruzadas sobre el pecho, alza los ojos al cielo hacia Dios Padre, que vuela de frente, flanqueado simétricamente por dos [+]