This landscape was painted on the outskirts of Montornès del Vallès, a village in the Vallès Oriental (Barcelona) where Mir lived between 1913 and 1921. Based on his direct observ [+]
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The nude young woman sits on a white cloth with which she covers her lap. The artist paints her in profile and avoids showing her face. This is one of many nude studies made by this artist, and it may [+]
The lady depicted here, around 50 years of age, is represented slightly greater than half-length, seated on a chair upholstered in green cloth, with a striking cashmere shawl of vivid colours lying on [+]
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A full-length portrait of Federico Flórez as a boy, wearing the uniform of the School of Noble Students of Madrid. This work is especially significant in Madrazo´s oeuvre, as it is one of the f [+]
The scene depicts a group of naked young women being surprised by a male who violently thrusts aside the reeds behind which they are concealed, while some cupids retreat in fear. The work illustrates [+]
This Charity, one of the most important works by the Tuscan painter Portelli, derives from a work on the same subject by Francesco Salviati (1510-1563) now in the Uffizi, Florence, emulating its compo [+]
These two miniatures belong to a series of seven on copper, unique in Goya’s oeuvre. They depict the artist’s son Javier and Javier’s in-laws on the occasion of his marriage to Gumersinda, daughter of [+]
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 [+]
David se hallaba con sus hombres en la montaña y envió al sanguinario Nabal un destacamento para pedirle comida. Ante su negativa, David ordenó a su ejército destruir su casa. Abigail, esposa de Nabal [+]
Traditionally this painting has been considered a copy of the original by Gerard Dou which, according to Somof (1901) and Martin (1913), was in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, but whose p [+]
Though it had been painted by many landscape artists since the middle of the nineteenth century, Aureliano de Beruete made the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range his primary subject, from the beginni [+]
El artista se ha retratado a los 38 años de edad, de busto corto sobre un fondo neutro, en actitud ensimismada, concentrándose toda la expresión en sus melancólicos y cansados ojos claros, que se deja [+]
During his trip to Paris in the autumn of 1913 Sorolla painted the wife of Jacques Seligmann, a leading art dealer of German origin, emphasising her beauty and elegance through the use of a restrained [+]
Precediendo a otros pintores españoles como Sorolla y Zuloaga, que adquirieron gran renombre como retratistas en Madrid y en París y realizaron después numerosos retratos en los Estados Unidos de Nort [+]
Five boys play at riding on each other´s shoulders in the game called “Chicken Fights” or “Horse and Rider” in a setting of hills and woods. This work is one of the cartoons for a series of gay, [+]
This view of Aranjuez Palace was painted in 1756, on the occasion of the celebration of the saint´s day of King Fernando VI (1713-1759). This work was one of a group of views of the Palace and of the [+]