The mural paintings from the Hermitage of the Vera Cruz de Maderuelo were transferred to canvas in 1947 and reconstructed at the Prado Museum in a layout as faithful to the original as possible. The w [+]
This is a sixteenth-century copy after Parmigianino’s fresco of Moses in the Steccata at Parma [+]
The identification of the bearded man bottom left, perhaps a priest or an Old Testament prophet, seems to hold the key to identification of the subject of this interesting drawing. The artist shows kn [+]
This is a copy after one of the upright oval panels in the ceiling of the Sala Superiore of the Scuola Grande di S. Rocco, Venice. [+]
This is a good drawing by an accomplished hand. Judging from its style, the artist seems to have been Florentine, since there are some echoes of the work of Giovanni Battista Naldini (c. 1537-1591) an [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa al niño arrodillado sobre el haz de leña, tras él Abraham y el ángel volando en la parte superior. Tiene todas las características de una copia y parece una composición [+]
The composition by Polidoro da Caravaggio is known from a number of drawn copies (Ravelli, 1978, pp. 224-225, nos. 273-277). Like the subject of the following drawing, Moses Closing the Waters of the [+]
Inscribed on the old mount, lower center, in brown ink: zucheri. In spite of the old attribution, the composition and figure types are entirely characteristic of Baglione. However, the poor handling i [+]
The figures of a woman with a basket on her head, a young man with a large amphora and a youth holding a basket to his side are found on the left of a composition by Polidoro da Caravaggio of The Gath [+]
Dibujo que presenta en primer termino a Judith que, con la espada en su mano derecha y la cabeza de Holofernes en la izquierda, camina hacia la derecha y vuelve la cabeza hacia la izquierda; detrás la [+]
In a pencil note on the old mount, M. Hofstede suggested the drawing could be a study for Federico Zuccari´s altarpiece of this subject, which he painted in 1568 for the Cathedral at Orvierto. In a su [+]
In a pencil note on the old mount, Michael Hirst has written: Copy after lost Polidoro. The drawing is by a seventeenth-century hand, and it is not impossible that it is by Pietro Testa. [+]
Nos. D01701; D01719; D01917; D01723; D01930; D01931; D01918 appear to represent sibyls, women from ancient times who were endowed with special powers of prophecy. From the Renaissance period and after [+]
A variant of this composition is to be found in the Cambiaso Album, no.20, D01864. [+]
Nos. D01701; D01719; D01917; D01723; D01930; D01931; D01918 appear to represent sibyls, women from ancient times who were endowed with special powers of prophecy. From the Renaissance period and after [+]
The drawing is laid down onto the same type of eighteenth-century Italian backing, decorated with a ruled, pen-and-ink border, as St. John the Evangelist (D01881) and Sibyl (?)(D01919). Several other [+]
Nos. D01701; D01719; D01917; D01723; D01930; D01931; D01918 appear to represent sibyls, women from ancient times who were endowed with special powers of prophecy. From the Renaissance period and after [+]