Hércules aparece en obras de autores como Homero, Hesidodo y Peisandros de Rodas, supuesto escritor de sus doce trabajos. También Ovidio habla de él de manera breve en las Metamorfosis, concretamente [+]
This is one of Meifrén’s views of Paris, where he spent various periods from the late 1870s onwards. It depicts a café on the Place de Clichy near Montmartre. It predates the depictions [+]
This forest corresponds to one of the typologies pioneered by Jan Brueghel the Elder around 1605, which he developed over the course of that decade. The painting depicts a well-travelled path through [+]
After being brought to Iria, in Galicia, by boat -the scene visible in the background of the painting- Saint James’s body was carried in a cart pulled by two bulls. In this painting, Athanasius and Th [+]
Elegantly dressed nobles with swords, capes and sunshades join the lower-class majos and majas on the banks of the river Manzanares and indulge in gambling, dancing and fishing. This is a sketch for a [+]
During the years he spent in Rome, Van Poelenburch began painting scenes of this kind with small-or medium-sized figures, in which the presence of ruins is so powerful that they could almost be said t [+]
It falls within a series of 118 views of Spanish ports, bays, islands, arsenals, etc., commissioned by Charles IV, King of Spain, in 1781, when he was Prince of Asturias, and in which the artist was i [+]
Charles V commissioned The Glory from Titian during their meeting in Augsburg in 1550-51. The painting was completed in October 1554 and was sent to Brussels. The unusual composition, which must corre [+]
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The painting belongs to a series of six paintings on the story of Jacob’s favorite son, Joseph, (P000951, P000952, P000953, P000954, P000955, P000956) by Antonio del Castillo (1616-1668), the leading [+]
Bosch thus shows how man, irrespective of his social class or place of origin, is so possessed by the desire to enjoy and acquire material possessions that he allows himself to be deceived or seduced [+]
This is one of four depictions of spectacles from ancient Rome that Domenico Gargiulo and Viviano Codazzi painted for the large History of Rome series at the Buen Retiro Palace. Of those four, in whic [+]
Air, one of the four elements, is embodied by the goddess, Juno, who sits in a carriage drawn by the peacocks that customarily symbolize her. She is accompanied by the nymph, Iris, who frames the scen [+]
The scene is closed in to the left by part of the inn and a tree, whereas the right-hand side opens out onto a vast panoramic view with a low horizon that occupies the entire background. The compositi [+]
This excellent example of the collaboration between Brueghel and Momper depicts simple rural life in Flanders, joining the genre of landscape painting with that of everyday life. The groups of figures [+]
A cartoon for the tapestry to be hung in the Prince of Asturias´s quarters at the El Pardo Palace. Two Majos appear at the center of the composition, playing characteristic 18th-century Spanish [+]
Acquired by Philip V for the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Idelfonso, where it appeared in a 1727 inventory, Carnival in Rome, 1653, is one of the best known paintings by Flemish artist Jan Miel. I [+]
Gaspare Vanvitelli is unanimously considered the founder of the eighteenth-century urban veduta, which was based on close observation of views and drawing from life, including scenes of everyday event [+]