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Benito Soriano Murillo (1827-1891) was an artist and deputy director of the Museo del Prado. He shared Raimundo de Madrazo and his family’s love of music, referred to by the guitar and piano. The eleg [+]
The writer Carolina Coronado (1820-1911) was a leading Romantic poet and a staunch advocate of education for women. Her sensitive, melancholy nature is conveyed here with delicate precision. The metic [+]
With this canvas painted in Paris, Casado del Alisal reached his own understanding of Velázquez, bringing a new realism to Spanish history painting. But here, rather than reflecting history pai [+]
Paisaje al óleo sobre lienzo. La montaña que se divisa al fondo es Montserrat y el peculiar elemento natural que centra la composición es una roca derecha, traducción literal castellana del topónimo c [+]
Murillo created a highly successful formula for representing the Immaculate Conception, with the Virgin dressed in blue and white, her hands crossed over her bosom and her gaze directed at the heavens [+]
Madrazo interprets the elegance and refinement of the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres with a personality of his own, especially in the sitter’s pose. The handling of the textiles - notabl [+]
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, a Romantic artist, painted mountain landscapes, some of notably large size. Here the depth within the panoramic view, the energy and variety of the brushstrokes and the [+]
The group of works on paper belonging to the Madrazo family, which the Museo del Prado acquired in 2006, includes an extraordinary collection of photographs. Most are calotypes by the Circle of Photog [+]
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In this late sculpture, Solá addresses the subject of filial devotion; a daughter breast-feeds her imprisoned father to prevent him dying of starvation. The theme, though common in painting, wa [+]
The sculptor and caricature artist Prosper d’Épinay was a close friend of Fortuny’s and they made portraits of each other. Modelled in Rome, this bust is one of the only two portrait sculptures [+]
The Company for the engraving of the paintings from the Royal Palaces was one of the Spanish Enlightenment’s major undertakings during the second half of the 18th century. It supervised the reproducti [+]
Es una litografía de Florentino Decraene (1795-1852) que reproduce el lienzo de Tiziano conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P00422). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo LXXVIII e iba a [+]
