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A group of scholars discuss various questions in a room. Some are sitting around tables while others contemplate some of the many paintings and art objects scattered around the room. Depictions of dilettantes or aficionados in collectors´ galleries or rooms ornamented with art objects constituted a customary genre among seventeenth-century Flemish painters, glorifying the practice of collecting as
Snayers specialised in panoramic views of military actions. Here he offers a topographical presentation of the siege of Gravelines (France) by the Spanish troops in 1652. On the right Snayers shows the rain falling on the area and also includes a map which functions to emphasise the illusion of depth in the scene.
Batoni combined the sobriety and naturalism of Neo-classical portraiture with the elegance and sensual appeal of Italian painting. George Legge, an English aristocrat making the Grand Tour, was a friend of the British royal family. He holds a map of Italy while prominent on the desk next to him is a Roman bust of Faustina the Younger, wife of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (now in the Capitoline Muse
Dressed for the Sabbath, a grandfather and his granddaughter appear in a comfortable interior in front of a map of the Mediterranean basin that coincides with the spread of the Sephardic diaspora. Seated on a hip-joint chair, the old man is instructing the little girl, who listens to him on the floor. The image, the work of an unidentified painter, synthesises the patriarchal role of men in the mo
María Cristina de Borbón y Dos Sicilias (Palermo, Italia, 1806-El Havre, Francia, 1878). Reina consorte de España. Cuarta y última esposa (1829) del rey Fernando VII (1784-1833). Casó después con Fernando Muñoz (1808-1873), I duque de Riansares, cuya fortuna procedía, sobre todo, del tráfico de esclavos y de las inversiones ferroviarias. En el momento del retrato, era Reina Gobernadora por minoría
