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Surrounded by angels, the Holy Family, with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John, receive Saint Louis, King of France. The background combines architecture and curtains. This work is organized li [+]
A broad landscape is the setting for Moses’s rescue from the Nile River by the Egyptian Pharaoh’s daughter and her retinue. In the foreground, a shepherd sleeps, indifferent to the events taking place [+]
Aún no se ha identificado a su autor; pero en algunos aspectos coincide con las obras salidas del taller de Joos van Cleve, que también colaboró con Patinir representando figuras para sus escenas de p [+]
The Virgin and Child are placed on a hill in the centre of the foreground, isolated from the rest of the figures, as in the Berlin panel (Gemäldegalerie ). The dark forest here begins in the midd [+]
While the Holy Family rest on the flight into Egypt the Christ Child is bathed in a river, a subject clearly alluding to baptism. One of the angels bears a palm of martyrdom, a reference to both Chris [+]
This composition retains the structure of traditional triptychs, but the landscape links the three panels together to form a single scene, thus including the pilgrim-donor and Saint Ursula in the Myst [+]
This small panel -it is practically a miniature- is truly exceptional among El Greco’s works. In it, he employs landscape as an essential compositional element while simultaneously demonstrating his m [+]
This painting shows the moment when, following an angel’s instructions, Tobias pulls out an enormous fish’s heart and entrails to cure his father’s blindness with them (Book of Tobit: VII, 15). The se [+]
This canvas and its companions (P586 to P590) are from the Convent of San Felipe el Real (Madrid). They entered the Museo del Prado from the Museo de la Trinidad. While traditionally assigned to Franc [+]
In 1504, after training with Perugino, Raphael moved from Perugia to Florence, where he remained for four years to absorb the work of Leonardo and Michelangelo. His gradual mastery of classicism is vi [+]
In this Flight to Egypt, Manuel de Castro reveals his affinity for human types drawn from Maratti, although the Virgin’s physical prototype is similar to both Coello´s and Maratti´s, with [+]
A more than half-length image of the Virgin over a gold background. She holds the Christ Child while two angels crown her as Queen of Heaven. The thistles the Christ Child plays with are a clear allus [+]
Stella offers a pleasing vision of the Holy Family, placing considerable emphasis on the small attendant angels. Saint Joseph hands the Christ Child a bunch of grapes in a reference to his future Pass [+]
The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child, flanked on the right by an angel and, on the left, by Saint Matthew. The landscape in the background shows a scene from the Apocrypha (Proto-Gospel of Saint Jam [+]
With its very straightforward composition, this painting has the serenity and restfulness that characterize many of Alonso Cano´s religious works. The painter´s skill at assimilating the most varied i [+]
Alessandro Turchi´s The flight into Egypt, early 1630s, was donated to the Museo del Prado by Ferdinand VII, founder of the museum, before 1833. The painting had not been in the Spanish Royal Collecti [+]
Before being attributed to Massys, this panel was thought to be by Patinir or Henri met de Bles, because of the “cosmic” panoramic landscape, a bird’s eye view with a very high horizon. Unlike in thei [+]
The format and the dimensions of this picture and the high horizon line allow for rendition of a large landscape, which displays what are generally regarded as the defining characteristics of Patinir` [+]
