Dibujo preparatorio para una pechina muy ancha, de forma trapezoidal. En él se representa a San Juan Evangelista sentado sobre una nube en actitud de escribir sobre un libro que apoya en sus rodillas, [+]
Maganza´s work belongs to the mainstream of painting in the Veneto during the last years of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth. His drawings, especially, reveal the i [+]
Gabriele Finaldi was the first to point out that the seated pope seems to be Pius V (Ghislieri), the Dominican, pro-Spanish pontiff who reigned from 1566 to 1572. As Cardinal Ghislieri, he held the of [+]
This drawing is after the one of the scenes painted by Polidoro between the windows of second floor of the Palazzo Milesi, Rome. [+]
Dibujo en el que se presenta San Juan Bautista de frente, con las manos juntas y la pierna derecha doblada y apoyada en una roca; en otra, el cordero dormido y en la parte superior Dios Padre (Texto e [+]
Traditionally attributed to Nicolò dell´Abate (c. 1512-1571). In the elegantly classical arrangement of the composition, the drawing shows knowledge of the work of Giuseppe Porta, called Salvia [+]
When the Virgin Mary was three years old her parents, Anna and Joachim, led her to the Temple of Jerusalem. There the young Virgin, without the assistance of her parents, climbed the staircase leading [+]
The Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, arrived in Rome in 1657, escaping the plague that had devastated his native city and his family. According to his biographer Lione Pasc [+]
The composition shows the following episodes from the first floor of the painted frieze on the facade of the Palazzo Ricci, Rome: Mucius Scaevola crossing the Tiber to take the Etruscan camp of King L [+]
Traditionally, this work was considered a preparatory sketch for the frescoes on the dome of the collegiate church at La Granja. In 1768 Charles III initiated the decoration of that church, and its do [+]
Preparatorio para el grupo principal del lienzo pintado en 1634 para el Salón de Reinos del Buen Retiro, hoy en el Museo del Prado (P00858). Los dos generales a caballo son Ambrosio Spínola y Felipe M [+]
The composition, which I have been unable so far to identify, may have been taken from a print. The inventor of the design was evidently either Venetian or Veronese. [+]
Although the present composition is ultimately dependent in origin on Albrecht Dürer´s great woodcut of the Trinity, a Florentine interpretation of the design is evident in the conception of the [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa ante un fondo de paisaje, en primer termino, arrodillada, a Santa Catalina a quien el Niño entrega el anillo. Como su compañero D02070, el dibujo aparece firmado y fecha [+]
The old attribution is to Titian (c. 1485-1576). The style seems however to be either Emilian or Lombard, from the mid-to-late sixteenth century. [+]
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San Francisco se representa arrodillado con los brazos abiertos, eleva los ojos a un ángel niño que le muestra una esfera. En primer término una roca, y en ella una cruz de leño y libros. Fondo de pai [+]
The centuries-old reference to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, seen on the support of this drawing, was first accepted by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, who identified the work as a preliminary study r [+]