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Lucas Velázquez drew his inspiration from different sources over the course of his career. Like Alenza, he drew on Siglo de Oro and Dutch painting for some of his landscapes, whose fantastic ch [+]
Saint Joseph’s Dream represent the order received by St Joseph to save the Christ child from the slaughter of the Innocent, and the release of the Liberation of Saint Peter (P03141), was imprisoned by [+]
A member of a dynasty of artists that began with his grandfather, the sculptor Pablo González Velázquez (1664-1727), Zacarías González Velázquez initially trained wi [+]
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 [+]
Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the chapel of San Diego de Alcalá at the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. This church’s found [+]
This preparatory sketch for the ceiling of Charles III’s former bedroom at the Royal Palace in Madrid depicts the Institution of the Order of Charles III following the birth of the King’s first male g [+]
Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the chapel of San Diego de Alcalá at the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. This church’s found [+]
Retrato de María Josefa Amalia de Sajonia Borbón-Parma (Dresde, Alemania, 1803-Aranjuez, Madrid, 1829), reina consorte de España y tercera esposa (1819) del rey Fernando VII. Peinada con el cabello re [+]
During his visit to Valencia in 1802, the Literary University of the city gave the King this painting which shows the university, personified as a young matron, introducing the royal family to the var [+]
An allegorical image that alludes to the City Government of Madrid´s gift of the mansion called the “Queen´s Casino” to Queen Isabel de Braganza on the occasion of her wedding to King Fernando VII (17 [+]
Double portraits of this type, which were common in the mid-nineteenth century, were generally painted when the son or daughter was presented in society. The mother, depicted as seated, represented an [+]
Before a dark background, four bunches of grapes are displayed to the viewer in this painting. The bunch occupying the central position, larger than the rest, is coloured blue-violet, while the other [+]
Annibale Carracci painted these works without previous cartoons as part of a group for the chapel of San Diego de Alcalá at the Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome. This church’s found [+]
Genaro Pérez Villaamil (El Ferrol, 1807-Madrid, 1854) can be considered the most significant and influential Spanish Romantic landscape painter and an artist who had an intense interest, charac [+]
In 1814, Goya addressed the reagent, Cardinal Luis de Bourbon, offering to make works commemorating events from the War of Independence (1808-1812): "to perpetuate, with a paintbrush, the most notable [+]
A depiction of the execution of patriots from Madrid by a firing squad from Napoleon´s army in reprisal for their uprising against the French occupation on the second of May, 1808. The French soldiers [+]
The sleeping Joseph, his elbow propped on the table and the Infant Christ on his lap, receives the angel’s warning to flee and thus avoid the massacre of children ordered by King Herod (Matthew 2, 13) [+]
Among the multiple sources of inspiration that Eugenio Lucas found in Goya’ works, bullfighting played a very substantial role in his painting career. As a bullfighting connoisseur and friend of bullf [+]
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