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This panel depicts the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, the Virgin Mary and Saint John. Flanking them are Saints Jerome, James the Apostle, Mary Magdalene and Catherine, accompanied by the donor’ [+]
Upon the death of Charles III, Goya was asked to paint portraits of the new monarchs, Charles Bourbon IV and his wife, María Luisa of Parma. As a recently named Royal Painter, the artist was re [+]
San Juan Bautista visto de frente, con barba y cabellos largos y ondulados. Está vestido con una túnica sin mangas en color verde sobre la que se superpone un manto de color rojo que parte del hombro [+]
Jerónimo Vich y Valterra (1459-1535) was Spain’s ambassador to Rome between 1506 and 1521, under the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V. Vich commissioned Sebastiano del Piombo to p [+]
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Saint James the Elder is depicted as a pilgrim, with his customary crozier or staff, although here it lacks the customary calabash for water. He wears a cape and a hat with the scallop shell that symb [+]
This attractive group portrait, one of the most interesting of the 17th-century Dutch school on account of its bourgeois spirit with aristocratic leanings, is an extraordinary skilful depiction of the [+]
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We can identify Saint Francis by his habit, his rope belt and the wound on his right hand. He raises his gaze towards heaven and holds a skull in his left hand. A crucifix rests on a book in front of [+]
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Christ´s body is taken from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. On the ground, Mary Magdalene extends her arms to him while the Virgin weeps sorrowfully. The depiction of these customary f [+]
This triptych is the principal creation and the work that has given the name to an anonymous follower of Rogier van der Weyden, previously identified as Vrancke van der Stockt. The triptych belonged t [+]
From the decade of the eighties onwards, El Greco developed an interesting iconography on the theme of the Holy Family. Over the course of the following years, he continued to work on this topic and p [+]
A portrait of the Duke of Osuna, Pedro Téllez Girón (1755-1807); his wife, the Countess-Duchess of Benavente, Josefa Alonso de Pimentel (1752-1834) and their four children: Francisco de [+]
The figure of Christ is depicted following the tradition of seventeenth-century Spanish religious painting, although the classical concept of beauty disseminated in Spain by Mengs and Bayeu is also ev [+]
A group of sorrowful figures is illuminated by the rays of divine light which pierce the darkness that fell with the death of Christ, shown lying in his mother’s lap and anointed by Mary Magdalene. Th [+]
