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This work shows politician, poet, playwright and tutor to Queen Elizabeth II, Manuel José Quntana (Madrid, April 11, 1772- Madrid, March 11, 1857) on the day of his coronation in the Senate as [+]
En esta obra el pintor pone en escena una multitud de aves cantoras. Éstas se posan en las ramas de un árbol que, en acusada diagonal, separa la llanura del bosque; recurso típico de las composiciones [+]
A portrait of the Duke of Osuna, Pedro Téllez Girón (1755-1807); his wife, the Countess-Duchess of Benavente, Josefa Alonso de Pimentel (1752-1834) and their four children: Francisco de [+]
Trained from childhood at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Mariano Sánchez specialized in landscapes and views. Contemporary documents reveal also a talent for miniatures and portraits, w [+]
With its delicate, highly individual style, the work of Luis Paret y Alcázar, an artist whose family was of French origin, unambiguously represents the French Rococo in Spanish art. The career [+]
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 [+]
Pocock was a painter and merchant navy captain who specialised in marine views. The present landscape reveals the influence of Claude-Joseph Vernet and Claude Lorraine in the way it captures the lumin [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
Ramón Bayeu, the younger brother of Francisco Bayeu, received similar training to his brother and won first prize in a competition organised by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in [+]
This work repeats the canvas painted in 1613 and 1614 for the Arrigoni Chapel at San Polo Maggiore in Bologna, although there are some differences in the foreground, the Heavens with Putti and the obj [+]
In portraits of female subjects, Anton Rafael Mengs displays a warm and gentle quality, more Rococo in tone than the slightly academic coldness marking his historical and mythological compositions. Th [+]
With its very straightforward composition, this painting has the serenity and restfulness that characterize many of Alonso Cano´s religious works. The painter´s skill at assimilating the most varied i [+]
Nani depicts a partridge and a female duck tied to a tree, a thrush and two quails, one of them already plucked and skinned in preparation for cooking. While the birds’ different states refer to vario [+]
Trained from childhood at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, Mariano Sánchez specialized in landscapes and views. Contemporary documents reveal also a talent for miniatures and portraits, w [+]
Set in a chapel with a carpeted altar, the scene depicts Saint Clare´s profession as a nun, which marked the founding of the female branch of the Order of Saint Francis, also known as the Claris [+]
La Virgen con el Niño en brazos; San José leyendo un libro. Obra cercana a la estancia del pintor en Roma en 1645. [+]
Francisco Bayeu worked as a court painter to Charles III from 1767; by 1787 -the date of this small portrait- he had produced a considerable number of decorations for the royal palaces and important c [+]
