Of the artists who painted war scenes in the 17th century, none was as interested as David Teniers II in capturing images from behind the lines. With his customary tactile rigor, he depicts a plethora [+]
The foreground display of numerous military elements, banners, drums, cuirasses and weapons, leads to a genre painting showing some soldiers resting in the background. On the left of the composition, [+]
Scattered around the room we see a large drum and pieces of several sets of armour –one of them still on its stand– and pistols and harquebusses hanging on the wall, on which a flag is also draped. In [+]
Leonardo Alenza y Nieto was, without doubt, the painter par excellence of romantic costumbrismo from Madrid. (Costumbrismo refers to nineteenth-century genre scenes representing folkloric subjects and [+]
The Florentine Bartolomé Carducho was one of the founders of the Madrid school of painting. His work deploys a masterly use of drawing, an ordered sense of composition and a warm palette toned [+]
In keeping with the Gospel according to Saint Luke (22: 39-46), Christ, far from the disciples, kneels down with his hands separated and prays to the Father to take away the cup of suffering he must d [+]
An inquiring and original artist, as well as an extraordinary draughtsman, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione travelled throughout much of Italy (besides his native Genoa, he worked in Rome, Mantua, Venic [+]
Diogenes of Sinope (ca.412 - 323BC) was a Greek Cynic philosopher. He is depicted here with his lighted lantern, which he used during the day in his search for an “honest man” in the streets of Athens [+]
This Judas betraying Christ, from the Duke of Pastrana`s collection, is a version on canvas of an original signed panel (47.5 x 40 cm) formerly in the Duke of Bouillon`s collection, and later, accordi [+]
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 Florentino Decraene (1795-1852) que reproduce el lienzo de Rubens conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01638). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo LXXXVI e iba aco [+]
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 [+]