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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 [+]
Jiménez Aranda spent the 1880s in France where he encountered the naturalistic style of Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), and a subsequent period in Madrid where his work influenced Joaqu&iacut [+]
During his time in Paris, Jiménez Aranda regularly produced tableautins (small, precisely painted works on eighteenth-century themes). The detailed description of the figures here contrasts wit [+]
Jiménez Aranda sets this scene of believers paying penance inside the well-known medieval basilica of Assisi, in Italy. Some of them carry large crosses and drag chains, while others pray at an [+]
El maestro sevillano se retrata de busto ante un fondo neutro, vistiendo una sencilla levita con cuello de terciopelo y corbata de lazo. Peinado con su abundante cabellera algo alborotada y su caracte [+]
Martín Rico was one of the leading Spanish landscape painters of the second half of the nineteenth-century. He was particularly interested in depicting tranquil stretches of water, and during h [+]
Madrid´s massive mountain range, the Sierra Madrileña, is depicted by Beruete from the outskirts of Madrid. This natural element was the painter´s favorite for his mountain landscapes. The work [+]
The finest work of all Gisbert’s production, this impressive painting is also unarguably one of the most beautiful of all 19th-century Spanish history paintings. Moreover, it is one of the greatest po [+]
This painting captures a moment in the Battle of Tetuan, when Spanish and Moroccan troops fought each other as part of the war between those two countries in 1859 and 1860. The Moroccan troops shoot a [+]
The series of paintings featuring the ‘children in the water’ motif culminates in this work, in which nude boys play a greater part in the composition than in other pictures by Sorolla. While it is si [+]
The picture shows some children from the sanatorium of Santa Clara, founded in 1901 by Dr Tolosa Latour, bathing on the beach at Chipiona. Both the form and the message of the composition are clearly [+]
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During the Golden Age, the Spanish word ninfa (nymph), which referred especially to nocturnal nymphs, acquired a complementary meaning as an elegant way of referring to courtesans and women of loose c [+]
Taking its cue from serialised fiction, the work narrates the return to her father’s home of a girl and her daughter, the fruit of an extra-marital relationship. Kneeling, she implores clemency from h [+]
In the last years of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, women were frequently depicted with certain attributes like the peacock in this painting, a symbol of vanity, that incarnate [+]
An old tree trunk attracted Jiménez Aranda’s attention during his walks in the outskirts of Paris, and he devoted this painting from life to it, in which he represents in extraordinary detail its roug [+]
En este apunte se aprecia la espontaneidad y la gran capacidad de observación de Blay, que utiliza aquí una técnica muy cercana a los dibujos modernistas, de trazos descriptivos, muy largos y lineales [+]
Desolation and defeat, yearning and loneliness are all conveyed through the sensual female nude that seems to emerge softly from the block of marble. The girl’s face is not shown and remains hidden be [+]
