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The Painter Aureliano de Beruete is the most outstanding of all the portraits made by Sorolla. In this work he successfully combined the Velázquez inspiration that was a feature of his oeuvre d [+]
Pinazo, an artist obsessed with his own image, painted numerous self-portraits, some showing him with a hat. In these works, he rendered his expressive facial features with naturalist exactitude again [+]
This painting and its companion, The Patrician’s Dream (P994), are among Murillo’s most renowned works. The two arched works were intended to hang beneath a small dome in the recently remodeled Sevill [+]
On the shore, Saint Francis receives a young man dressed in a black habit, ruff collar and hat, whom Christ carries over the water. In the background: a boat and an embankment with two figures.This ca [+]
This painting is a copy of the lower part of El Greco’s celebrated original on display in the church of Santo Tomé, Toledo. A work of considerable quality, it reveals an interesting variety of [+]
This painting and its companion, The Patrician Reveals his Dream to the Pope (P995), are among Murillo’s most renowned works. The two arched works were intended to hang beneath a small dome in the rec [+]
Sorolla was the most gifted Spanish painter of his generation, excelling in portraiture. In the early years of the twentieth century, and especially after the encouragement of winning the Grand Prize [+]
For Sorolla and his wife, the time spent in Italy formed part of the years at the beginning of their relationship when they confronted their first difficulties together. As late as 1915, nearly thirty [+]
Representative of Sorolla’s fully mature period, this work is also one of the finest female portraits he ever executed. The artist knew the sitter very well, as she was the wife of one of his closest [+]
In 1901, Sorolla and Jiménez Aranda painted portraits of each other. They had known each other since the early 1890s, successively occupied the same study in Madrid, and it was the painter from [+]
In this presentation of the Virgin breastfeeding the Christ Child, Morales discreetly avoids showing her naked breast, in line with his habitual practice. Through the restlessness of the Christ Child, [+]
Ligozzi painted numerous allegories on death and the vices, using a macabre and morbid language that included skeletons and hourglasses. In works of this type the artist employed his imagination and p [+]
At the time this painting was executed the palace of Coudenberg was the seat of the court of the Archduke Albert and the Archduchess Isabel Clara Eugenia in Brussels. This lively depiction of the pala [+]
Oblivious to vindications of the intellectual and spiritual dimension of women, Raimundo de Madrazo continued to explore the sophistication of their external appearance, adjusting his portraits of his [+]
Francisco Domingo approaches the work of Diego Velasquez (1500-1600) in a free reinterpretation of the human types painted by that artist from Seville. A group of hunters take a rest during a hunt. Al [+]
Retrato de Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (Barcelona, 1824-Madrid, 1901), escritor, historiador y político. Fue, además, ministro de Ultramar (1871, 1874 y 1886-1888) y de Fomento (1872). Aunque fue miembro [+]
The woman seated at the back of the carriage is an open allusion to the famous parricide immortalised by Sorolla in his painting Another Marguerite!! (Saint Louis, Missouri, Kemper Art Museum). With a [+]
Retrato de Luis Álvarez Catalá (Madrid, 1836-1901), pintor que estuvo estrechamente vinculado al Museo del Prado, del que fue sucesivamente Secretario, Subdirector y Director. A diferencia de lo que o [+]
