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A landscape with waterfalls appears at one side of the composition. At the other, various buildings oppose their rational and geometrical mass to Nature’s freer expression. The canvas’s human presence [+]
This work belongs to a group from the History of Rome series for the Buen Retiro Palace. Dedicated to depictions of Roman public pastimes, the group includes athletes, gladiators, chariots, animal fig [+]
En un bellísimo paisaje, pleno de luz y diferentes detalles, a cuál más refinado y auténtico, tomado del amplísimo repertorio que ofrece la naturaleza, en cuyos fondos se aprecian unas edificaciones, [+]
The Apostles sleep in the foreground, indifferent to the suffering of Christ who is attended by angels. One holds a chalice, prefiguring the Passion. The artist looked to Correggio (c. 1489-1534) in t [+]
This work belongs to a group from the History of Rome series for the Buen Retiro Palace. Dedicated to depictions of Roman public pastimes, the group includes athletes, gladiators, chariots, animal fig [+]
Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE) was the sovereign of Egypt and the last representative of its final royal family, the Ptolemaic dynasty. Feeling that all was lost after her armies and those of her Roman [+]
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Wearing a white tunic and bearing the standard of victory, Christ leans toward Adam and Eve who, nude, hope to be rescued from Limbo and taken to the Kingdom of Heaven. This passage appears in the Apo [+]
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Saint Francis is one of the most venerated of all Christian saints. Born in 1182, he chose a religious life after a youth filled with empty pleasures and frolicking. He was followed by a considerable [+]
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 [+]
On entering the Museum this painting was inventoried as a product of the Sevillian school, though the 1876 catalogue lists it as a work executed in the style of Jan Both. Valdivieso (1973) considers i [+]
A rhomboidal garland of flowers surrounds grisaille figures of the Virgin and Child with Saint John. This is one of many examples of the collaboration between the Jesuit painter specializing in still [+]
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La caída de los gigantes es un episodio brevemente narrado por Ovidio en sus Metamorfosis, Libro I (151-155), en la cual los gigantes que habitaban la tierra querían llegar al cielo y por ello fueron [+]
The motif of the sleeping Christ Child is a traditional image that prefigures his death. He is watched by Joseph and Mary, who is surrounded by the roses that symbolise her. She restrains the Infant S [+]
