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 figure [+]
Orpheus descends into the Underworld to recover his wife, Eurydice, who died after being bitten by a serpent. Pluto and Proserpina, the god and goddess of the underworld, are so moved by the music of [+]
This panel is one of the models designed by Rubens for a series of tapestries on the life of the Consul Publius Decius(4th century BC). It offers an extremely eloquent depiction of this Roman hero’s m [+]
When Rubens visited the Spanish court in Madrid from late August 1628 until April 1629, he copied many of the numerous paintings by Titian in the royal collection. He was seduced by the radical techni [+]
A model for the tapestry on the same subject that belongs to a series of eight about the Greek hero. The Story of Achilles is smaller than other projects by Rubens, but the quality of its sketches, mo [+]
Recognizable by the crescent-moon-shaped diadem on her head, Diana hunts deer with spears and dogs, accompanied by various nymphs. The extremely horizontal composition is one of the peculiarities of t [+]
We are confronted here with one of Rubens’s greatest gifts as a painter: his ability to create images of a joyful way of being in the world related to love and inspired by ancient literature and Renai [+]
In 1625, Archduchess Isabel Clara Eugenia commissioned Rubens to design a series of twenty tapestries for the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid. The subject was the Eucharist, a leading Cath [+]
According to Ovid (Metamorphosis, book V), in order to avoid her husband Jupiter´s infidelities, the goddess, Juno, converted the nymph, Io, into a lamb and called on Argos, the shepherd, to look afte [+]
This work depicts an episode from the life of Rodolfo I (1218-1291), founder of the Hapsburg Dynasty. While hunting with his page, Regulo de Kyburg, Rodolfo met a priest and a sexton who were taking t [+]
A group of figures dance to the tune of a flute played by a man perched on an oak tree, and to the bells that some dancers have attached to their lower legs. The scene evokes the dances that are part [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo pintado por Rubens, cuya firma aparece en la estampa, y por Jan Wildens (P01645). Rubens realizó las figuras y el paisa [+]
Es una litografía de Andreas Pic de Leopold (1789?-después de 1860). Reproduce el lienzo, conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01411), de la conversión de san Huberto, cuya figura del santo fue [+]
Es una litografía de Andreas Pic de Leopold (1789?-después de 1860). Reproduce el lienzo, conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01411), de la conversión de san Huberto, cuya figura del santo fue [+]
Tendremos que dirigir nuestra mirada a los Países Bajos para encontrar la primera estampa en la que el nombre del pintor sevillano aparezca citado en la mención de autorías. Se trata del Retrato alegó [+]
Es una litografía de Andreas Pic de Leopold (1789?-después de 1860). Produce el lienzo, conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01411), de la conversión de san Huberto, cuya figura del santo fue p [+]
Es una litografía de Andreas Pic de Leopold (1789?-después de 1860). Reproduce el lienzo, conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01411), de la conversión de san Huberto, cuya figura del santo fue [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808 –1889) que reproduce el lienzo pintado por Rubens, cuya firma aparece en la estampa, y por Jan Wildens (P01645). Rubens realizó las figuras y el pais [+]