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Double portraits of this type, which were common in the mid-nineteenth century, were generally painted when the son or daughter was presented in society. The mother, depicted as seated, represented an [+]
It has often been stated that this painting is part of a series of four, all now in the Prado, but that is probably not the case. The dimensions of all four paintings (P1619, P1620, P1621, P1622) are [+]
Large-format versions of the Virgin holding the dead body of Christ, like those at Badajoz Cathedral and at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, gave way in Morales’s oeuvre to smaller c [+]
This is the right wing of the Genealogy of the Virgin altarpiece which the Count of Barajas donated to Philip II, according to the inventory of the Alcazar of Madrid of 1600. On the reverse, Saint Ber [+]
In this work, Goya represented two different country activities. The background shows hunters, but the foreground has a boy fishing in a river, which gives this work its title. This was a cartoon for [+]
Comprising three panels, the Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi and the Presentation in the Temple, this painting is earlier than the triptych on the same subject painted by Memling for Jan Floreins [+]
The group appears between a pair of columns on the right of Taddeo´s fresco of the "Last Supper" in the church of S. Maria della Consolazione, Rome. [+]
Figura femenina de pie y de frente, con las dos manos recoge su túnica. El estudio de las telas muy terminado, pero la figura apenas esbozada. Dibujo preparatorio para la figura correspondiente en la [+]
La composición en un óvalo. El santo de tres cuartos con las manos cruzadas y la cabeza alzada, en actitud de oración. La figura es copia del San Francisco, que aparece en el cuadro de Guido Reni de l [+]
This subject was treated by Goya in 1791in his cartoon for the tapestry entitled The Straw Manikin. Whereas in that piece the theme is playful, in the Disparates series it is rendered somber by the pr [+]
El dibujo presenta a la derecha, sobre un pedestal, la Virgen con el Niño; en primer término, de espaldas, una figura femenina con una cruz, y a la izquierda, arrodillados, adorando a la Virgen, una d [+]
Estudio de una Sagrada Familia. A la izquierda, San José en pie, con la mano izquierda apoyada en el hombro del Niño. A la derecha, la Virgen también de pie con amplios ropajes y manto sobre la cabeza [+]
Estudio de la cabeza de Cristo para la figura del dibujo preparatorio Cristo y un ángel entre nubes (D03305), conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado. (Texto extractado de Arnáez, R.: Catálogo de Di [+]
San José de frente, en primer término, y dormido, un ángel vuela sobre su cabeza y levanta su manto. Al fondo, tras una puerta, la Virgen amamanta al Niño. El dibujo forma, tal vez, pareja con el D033 [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]
Estudio de La Piedad en el que se representa a Cristo sentado en el suelo, apoyando el cuerpo sobre la pierna derecha de la Virgen. (Texto extractado de Arnáez, R.: Catálogo de Dibujos. II. Dibujos Es [+]
Dibujo de un Cristo crucificado muy torpe y desproporcionado, como estudio de principiante. De técnica derivada de la de Bayeu. (Texto extractado de Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E.: Catálogo de Dibujos. II. [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]
