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The Museo del Prado’s collections include an important group of paintings by Juan de Correa de Vivar, an artist based in Toledo who must have been born at the beginning of the 16th century in the town [+]
This vigorously modelled study, in which the priming of the canvas is left visible, relates to Mengs’s great canvas of The Ascension. Painted for the high altar of Dresden cathedral, it survived the d [+]
We can identify Saint Francis by his habit, his rope belt and the wound on his right hand. He raises his gaze towards heaven and holds a skull in his left hand. A crucifix rests on a book in front of [+]
Because this work is signed and dated, it reveals the existence of a painter by the name of Felipe Ramírez, although art historians know virtually nothing else about him. This lovely example of [+]
This scene belongs to the type of Italianate landscape which Asselijn cultivated in Holland based on drawings and sketches made from the life during his stay in Rome. Blankert (1965) dates the work to [+]
This canvas is a good example of the numerous influences that acted on Orrente’s style. They include his Venetian training, evident in his approach to the landscape in this painting, and unmistakable [+]
This small and simple floral composition was attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán before it was reassigned to El Labrador. The artist has depicted the flowers (pinks, lilies and a rose) as stron [+]
After the death of Velázquez, Carreño showed himself to be the artist most worthy of continuing the depiction of monsters, jesters, and dwarves that inhabited the Spanish court. Inventor [+]
This altar frontal is divided into two levels separated by arches enclosing the Adoration of the Magi, above, and the Presentation in the Temple, below. Both the structure and composition are unusual [+]
An image of a young milkmaid with an apron, a shawl on her shoulders and a scarf holding back her hair. There is a milk jug behind her, to the left. The bottom-to-top perspective seems intended to giv [+]
On 14 February 1612 Juan Bautista Maíno signed the contract to execute the paintings for the monastery church of San Pedro Mártir in Toledo. Maíno agreed to a period of eight mont [+]
Holding a letter in his hand, Juan Bautista de Muguiro sits beside his desk, on which an inkwell is visible. This representation exalts his stature as a banker taking care of his business. An inscript [+]
The Museo del Prado’s collections include an important group of paintings by Juan de Correa de Vivar, an artist based in Toledo who must have been born at the beginning of the 16th century in the town [+]
The Museo del Prado’s collections include an important group of paintings by Juan de Correa de Vivar, an artist based in Toledo who must have been born at the beginning of the 16th century in the town [+]
In the courts of Spain´s nobility, the sixteenthcentury fascination with oddities of the natural world persisted into the seventeenth and was manifested in, among other things, an interest in people w [+]
These two works (E00937, E00483), which are exceptional examples of Spanish Renaissance art show El Greco´s knowledge of classical sculpture. Pandora was a beautiful woman made from clay by Hephaestus [+]
These two works (E00483, E00937), which are exceptional examples of Spanish Renaissance art show El Greco´s knowledge of classical sculpture. Pandora was a beautiful woman made from clay by Hephaestus [+]
A vessel cut in a single piece with no mounts, with a high foot in the form of a truncated cone, a bulbous bowl, an everted neck and a cover with a basket-handle arch profile surmounted by an acorn. T [+]
