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Three boys -two standing and one seated- are playing chito, a game in which metal disks known as tejos are thrown at a piece of carved wood (the chito) resting on the ground with a coin on top of it. [+]
The principal beams are decorated with secular scenes, including dances, jousts or men fighting monsters, and with the coats-of-arms of Castile and León and those of the Luna and Rojas families [+]
An image of Saint John the Baptist as a child. He wears an animal skin and sits on a boulder from which water flows. The background is landscape. A lamb is beside him. In his right hand he holds a sta [+]
This surprising canvas presents the image of the Virgin of Atocha, just as she was worshipped on her altar at the Dominican convent dedicated to her on the outskirts of Madrid. This type of votive ima [+]
After establishing himself in Paris as portrait painter to the elegant and cosmopolitan high society of his time, Raimundo de Madrazo cultivated a particularly abundant clientele among the great ladie [+]
The earliest documentary reference to this painting appears in the 1772 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro, in which the setting is attributed to Viviano Codazzi (1603/4-1672) and the figures [+]
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos was one of the most illustrious representatives of the Spanish Enlightenment, a man of letters, writer and poet, as well as a statesman with advanced ideas. Born in Gij&oa [+]
Este oratorio portátil es una pieza excepcional que aúna dos delicados trabajos de Damián Forment y Juan de Juanes, figuras fundamentales del Renacimiento en la Corona de Aragón. La representación cen [+]
The Museo del Prado has four drawings (e/f [D04184, D04183], g/h [D04342, D04342/1], i/j [D04185, D04186], m/n [D07360, D07360/1]) with scenes on both sides from what is known as Goya’s Album A or San [+]
The goddess Eirene, bearing an olive branch, personifies Peace. She is surrounded by allegories of her bounty: prosperity, plenty, the progress of all the arts represented and the rejection of arms, t [+]
This pair of angels with instruments of the Passion (E00493, E00711) was sculpted for export by Maes in Bruges, as the rare signatures on the reverses indicate. The pair comes from a church in norther [+]
The Emperor (1500-1558) is represented with attributes alluding to his power: armor, the necklace of the Golden Fleece and a crossing sash. The armor has a low relief of the Virgin Mary carved on the [+]
This pair of angels with instruments of the Passion (E00493, E00711) was sculpted for export by Maes in Bruges, as the rare signatures on the reverses indicate. The pair comes from a church in norther [+]
This altarpiece consists of two separate elements: the principal part, which would have hung on the wall above the altar and below and, in front of it, the frontal or antipendium. The former, which is [+]
A representation of the first amorous encounter of a youthful couple. In a style some have called lyrical, Blay transmits the soft warmth of adolescent figures modeled with exceptional realism. They a [+]
This head carved from bigio morato marble is broken into two parts, vertically. Its restoration required several additions, both to finish various curls and to reconstruct the top of the head, where a [+]
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 [+]
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