Abundance, personified by Ceres, goddess of fertility and agriculture, sits in front of a thicket of reeds at the edge of a forest. She has adorned her hair with wheat spikes -her attribute- and bears [+]
Towards the edges of two moulded stone shelves (P549, P550) rest two bronze vases with broad decorated bases and slender stems embraced, in one case by a group of tritons (P550) and, in the other by, [+]
This canvas with clearly defined characteristics is paired with another work at the Museo del Prado (P7912) whose shared circumstances help us to appreciate Hiepes’s achievements even more -especially [+]
Jan van Kessel era nieto de Jan Brueghel el Viejo y sobrino de Jan Brueghel el Joven y de David Teniers II, de quienes fue discípulo. En esta obra aúna varios de los géneros pictóricos en que destacó. [+]
Juan de Arellano specialised in painting pictures of flowers, which brought him great artistic and financial success. Here, he depicts a wicker container with a bouquet of tulips, roses, campanulas an [+]
This flower painting brings to mind works the artist gave to the Prince of Asturias, Charles of Bourbon, in 1788. Shortly before he took the throne as King Charles IV. An early interest in art in gene [+]
Towards the edges of two moulded stone shelves (P550, P549) rest two bronze vases with broad decorated bases and slender stems embraced, in one case by a group of tritons (P550) and, in the other by, [+]
Miguel Parra was one of the most important artists in Valencia during the first half of the nineteenth century. he held leading posts in artistic institutions in that city and añsp in the court [+]
Depicting the same subject, this canvas and its pair (P7936) were painted by Alabert in Valencia in 1799. They are among the numerous floral compositions of this type produced in the city in the late [+]
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This work belongs to a series of six paintings, of which only five have survived (P1056, P1057, P5095, P5099 and P5250). Cruzada Villaamíl (1865) registered the three that he included in his ca [+]
In an effort to make their works beautiful and attractive, painters established a hierarchy in which secondary objects were subordinated to the principle ones to generate a charming and stimulating se [+]
The goddess Flora is seated on steps or a kind of dais, holding a cornucopia of flowers and distributing blossoms among the women gathered before her. This is a collaborative work between two Neapolit [+]
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An Italian sculptor, probably one of Bernini’s pupils, added a head, hands, trunk and legs to a Roman torso based on an athlete by pupil of Polyclitus (5th century BC), transforming it into a personif [+]