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A group of scholars discuss various questions in a room. Some are sitting around tables while others contemplate some of the many paintings and art objects scattered around the room. Depictions of dilettantes or aficionados in collectors´ galleries or rooms ornamented with art objects constituted a customary genre among seventeenth-century Flemish painters, glorifying the practice of collecting as
This set of paintings on the five senses was one of the most successful collaborations of Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel “the Elder”. Rubens placed his figures in the magnificent courtly scenes created by Brueghel as settings for these allegories of the senses, resulting in a series of enormous quality and esthetic appeal. The subject was widely employed in Flemish painting. Sight was consider
This canvas and its companion, Taste, Hearing and Touch (P1404), represent the five senses embodied by female figures in palatial interiors. The sense of smell is conveyed by a woman holding flowers, while Sight contemplates herself in a mirror held by a cherub. They are located in a hall filled with paintings and sculptures, a sort of cabinet of paintings that could reflect an idealized represent
This decoration of the front of a chest depicts the seven Liberal Arts, accompanied by an equal number of figures that represent the most relevant personages in each discipline. All are being crowned with laurel wreaths by small angels. Astronomy presides over the composition, carrying the heavenly sphere, with Ptolomy (first and second centuries A.D.) sitting at his feet and reading one of the th
This canvas, like P7349, is one of a group of six preparatory designs for the tapestries made for the private room of the Princess of Asturias in the Royal Palace. In each canvas a putto holds symbols referring to the work’s allegorical subject, in this case Astronomy’s armillary sphere and compasses. Based on Renaissance ornamentation, the delicacy and colour as well as the floral and bird motifs
The painting is one of the most celebrated of Jusepe de Ribera´s so-called ragged philosophers. Although born in Spain, the artist spent his entire professional life in Italy. He appears to have been largely responsible for the invention of the subject in the mid 1610s, and it enjoyed great success in Italy over the course of the seventeenth century in the hands of artists such as Salvator R
En el centro, en pie, la Pintura; a la derecha, sentada de perfil, con el compás y la escuadra, la Arquitectura; al fondo, la Escultura.Es apunte que enlaza con el estilo de Novelli, en el trazado de la pluma en rayas zigzagueantes o paralelas que hacen reconocibles sus dibujos. La composición cuidadosamente enmarcada a tinta, es quizá para frontispicio de un libro, pero la sequedad y debilidad de
The donkey is symbolic of ignorance. Goya here denounces miseducation through his criticism of a teaching system predicated on the incompetence of the teachers and the ineptitude of the students. The teacher shows the young asses an image with a compass and a ruler, which in the print has been made into an alphabet showing the letter A several times, which when read aloud would sound like a donkey
This drawing has rarely been exhibited and studied, but it is, nevertheless, one of the most beautiful due to its monumental and synthetic feel. Using only sharp crayon strokes, Goya defines the contours of the figure the friar, nestled in an indeterminate space while drawing with a compass. His face shows a degree of concentration perhaps excessive for the task he is performing. A smooth shading
In the centre is a symbolic representation of Mathematics based on Cesare Ripa’s Iconology (1593). Holding a globe in one hand, with the other she uses a compass on a tablet held up by a boy. The flanking figures may be celebrated Greek mathematicians such as Euclid, Pythagoras and Archimedes.Within the sculptural programme commissioned by Ferdinand VI to decorate the New Royal Palace in Madrid we
The figure of Philosophy, personified by the woman in the centre, holds a sceptre, book and hourglass. Accompanying her are, amongst other figures, the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, considered the father of Botany, and the Roman naturalist Pliny, whose Natural History is an important compilation of contemporary knowledge on Zoology, Botany or Mineralogy. A notable sculptor, this relief earned th
One of the most significant allegorical images of the arts from the end of the Renaissance is this print engraved by Cort after a drawing by Van der Straet, known as Stradanus. The drawing, now at the British Museum, is very detailed and was clearly intended to be engraved. This is clear in the similar size, the reversed composition and the inscription. Dated in 1573, it bears an inscription which
Sin firmas de grabador ni dibujante los datos se han tomado del primer estado. La estampa hace pareja con la del retrato de Maria Luisa de Borbón. Se trata de una estampación de principios del siglo XX cuando la lámina ingresó en la Calcografía. Se conocen cuatro estados. El primero, dentro de un marco el retrato de tres cuartos casi frontal, con el sombrero encima de la mesa; a la derecha del mar
La estampa de Carlos IV, dibujada y grabada por Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona, hace pareja con la del retrato de Maria Luisa de Borbón (G01709 y G02527). Estampada entre 1778 y 1788 fecha en la que sube al trono. Se conocen cuatro estados. El primero, dentro de un marco el retrato de tres cuartos casi frontal, con el sombrero encima de la mesa; a la derecha del marco objetos alegóricos de las arte
La estampa de Carlos IV, dibujada y grabada por Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona, hace pareja con la del retrato de Maria Luisa de Borbón (G01709 y G02527). Estampada entre 1778 y 1788 fecha en la que sube al trono. Se conocen cuatro estados. El primero, dentro de un marco el retrato de tres cuartos casi frontal, con el sombrero encima de la mesa; a la derecha del marco objetos alegóricos de las arte
This table has the image of a painting of a seascape and its frame, back to front, as well as playing cards, various chips, a ruler, a hammer, a compass and other carpentry tools, two buckles, a key ring and various drawings over a touchstone or black Belgian marble background. The representation of the images is directly based on famous compositions by French painter Joseph Vernet (1714-1789), wh
