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Designed by Juan de Villanueva, the building that houses the Museo del Prado has always been an indispensable landmark in Madrid’s urban landscape. Since the mid 1820s, numerous artists have taken an [+]
This impressive study is a rare example of Aurelio Luini´s finished drawings in pen. The artist is better known for his more rapid pen studies, a feature of which is a rather ragged, disorderly [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa en el centro, arrodillado, el Santo rodeado de los sayones que le arrojan piedras. Mientras que en la parte superior es representada la Trinidad (Texto extractado de Men [+]
By far the most prestigious commission of Trometta´s entire career was the fresco decoration of the ceiling of the choir of the church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. On 30 January 1565 he contracted t [+]
As J.A. Gere pointed out in 1981 (pencil note on the modern museum mount), the composition is taken from Polidoro´s facade decoration of the Palazzo Milesi, Rome. Judging from the style, the cop [+]
The fantastic creature in the present sheet resembles those appearing as crests of helmets in some ornamental suits of armor manufactured in Northern Italy in the middle of the sixteenth century, part [+]
It looks like an artist from central Italy between the mid to late 16th century. [+]
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This good copy, probably datable from the late sixteenth century, is after Tintoretto´s fresco in the Sala dell´Albergo, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. [+]
The drawing may be Napolitan, by an artist in the orbit of Belisario Corenzio (active 1590-1646), though this is no more than a guess. The dramatic, light blue-grey wash reminded Paul Joannides of the [+]
This is a mediocre copy of Raphael´s famous altarpiece now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome, which the artist began in 1519 and which was left unfinished at his death. [+]
The composition is based on one of the prints in Tempesta´s Serie dei cavalli. The print in question is the fifteenth in the series. [+]
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As a Pouncey observed (note on the mount), this is a copy after Camillo Procaccini. [+]
Jesús, semiarrodillado en una piedra, aguarda el bautismo. San Juan agachado recoge el agua del río Jordán. Dos ángeles, tras Jesús, sostienen sus vestiduras; otros a la derecha dialogan. En el cielo [+]
Traditionally placed as after Pellegrino Tibaldi, whose frescoes of The Stories of Christ´s Passion painted in 1587-90 in the Escorial are similar in format to the composition of this drawing. [+]
This is without a doubt one of the finest drawings done in Italy during the sixteenth century from the Prado´s collection. Peter Candid, the artist responsible, was not however Italian by birth but Ne [+]
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 [+]
