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This is a sketch for a no-longer extant painting on canvas intended to decorate a ceiling in a building of the imperial court of Russia, whose memory is preserved in an engraving made by Giambattista& [+]
According to the fourteenth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, after ordering the river Numicius to wash away all the mortal aspect of Aeneas, Venus anointed him with a divine perfume and touched his mouth [+]
In this picture, the setting epitomises the classical concept of a Locus amoenus ("pleasant place") which developed from the time of Homer and referred to an ideal place for sensual being, with flowin [+]
In this painting, Paret invites us to attend a daily ritual at the Royal Palace in Madrid. Spain’s King Charles III (1716-1788) sits at the table in presence of his ministers, ambassadors, servants an [+]
En el plano superior aparece la Virgen sentada sobre una nube sostenida por ángeles; abajo y en sombra, ángeles músicos. El artista señala la existencia de planos a través del color y del detalle, más [+]
Representa la escena en la que Hércules está en la pira sobre la piel del león de Nemea. Filoctetes, amigo y compañero de Hércules, en la parte inferior del lienzo procede a prender fuego a la pira po [+]
It was Ballarin who discovered what is probably the Prado´s finest painting by Jacopo, and one of his most impressive late works, hanging in the Sala de Juntas of the Universidad de Barcelona, where i [+]
This is a superb example of the type of landscape that Agüero and Mazo painted for the Court: paintings already marked by their knowledge of the works of Claude Lorraine and, especially here, Sal [+]
The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554), versions of other previous works, but endowed with all the prestige of the co [+]
This mythological scene is one of the three currently-known paintings by Pieter Fris. It depicts the moment when Orpheus, having descended into the realm of darkness to search for his wife Eurydice, k [+]
Giordano representa el combate entre Turno, rey de los Rútulos, y Eneas, príncipe troyano, hijo de Anquises y Venus. La escena tiene lugar en el Lacio, a donde llegó Eneas una vez concluida la Guerra [+]
Peter Paul Rubens executed this painting between 1636 and 1637 on a commission from Philip IV for the Torre de la Parada. The decoration of this royal hunting pavilion, in which other artists such as [+]
Copia de un original de Rubens. Narra el momento de la Eneida en el cual, durante una cacería, Juno hace que se desate una tormenta y esto obliga a Dido y a Eneas que se cobijen en una cueva. [+]
This piece has long been regarded as a sketch for the picture of the same name at the Louvre, Didon. Énée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie (INV 5184), a huge su [+]
For the decoration of one of the rooms in Duke Alfonso I of Ferrara’s private apartments in the capital of his duchy, Dosso Dossi executed a frieze comprising ten horizontal canvases of episodes from [+]
In 1549 in Brussels Charles V commissioned Leone Leoni to execute a group of statues of himself and his deceased wife the Empress Elizabeth of Portugal.They were to be in different formats (bust and h [+]
