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This set of paintings on the five senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch) 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 i
This painting depicts the baptism of Prince Juan. It is based on the description of that event from Historia de los Reyes Católicos (History of the Catholic Kings) by Andrés Bernáldez, published in 1856. The documentary rigor of this text is transferred to the canvas, so we can speak here of the archeological veracity with which Pradilla reconstructed that historical event. Th
This work is a variation on the painting executed by Jacopo towards 1580 for the main altar of the church of the Capuchins in Bassano del Grappa (Museo Civico, inv. 18), a large work (237 x 155 cm) with over fifty figures that constitutes una sorta di compendio di tutte le positure fatte da Jacopo Bassano per le sue opere (Marini: 1992, p. 298), and which was inspired by Titian´s La Gloria (P432),
This canvas has been attributed to Luis González Velázquez, who belonged to an extended family of artists and was the brother of two more painters, Antonio and Alejandro. It deploys a Baroque style to depict an episode from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi when the saint and a fellow friar witnessed the apparition of Christ and the Virgin surrounded by musical angels.
In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing the Earth. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads his armies from his reddish horse, destroying the world of the living. The latter are led to an enormous coffin with no hope for salvation. All of the soci
Sebastián Aparicio (1502-1600) was born in La Gudiña (Orense) and first worked as an agricultural labourer. In 1533 he went to Mexico where he became a landowner then entered the Franciscan Order in 1574. In 1789 was beatified for his missionary work and various miracles are attributed to him. Maella depicts him at work in the countryside.
