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Lucas Velázquez drew his inspiration from different sources over the course of his career. Like Alenza, he drew on Siglo de Oro and Dutch painting for some of his landscapes, whose fantastic ch [+]
Está retratado hasta las rodillas a sus sesenta y nueve años, sentado en un sillón. Viste traje y corbata negros, chaleco marfil y un bello broche en la pechera de la camisa. En la solapa luce la vene [+]
Giandomenico Tiepolo was the elder of Giambattista’s two artist sons, and his closest collaborator. While training with his father prepared him to assist with his mural decorations, Giandomenico also [+]
Una inscripción en su reverso vincula este óleo sobre cobre de pequeñas dimensiones con la pintora Caterina Cherubini Preciado, esposa del también pintor Francisco Preciado de la Vega desde 1750 y jun [+]
The painting is one of a series of eight scenes from Christ’s Passion painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri, Ma [+]
The painting is one of a series of eight scenes from Christ’s Passion painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri, Ma [+]
The painting is one of a series of eight scenes from Christ’s Passion painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri de [+]
Dressed in white with the Crown of Thorns, Jesus has fallen under the weight of the Cross, on the path to Calvary. Behind him are Simon of Cyrene, who helps him with the Cross, and the Holy Women, one [+]
The Agony in the Garden, painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri de Madrid, is one scene in a series of eight dep [+]
The painting is one of a series of eight scenes from Christ’s Passion painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri, Ma [+]
This depiction of Christ, lifeless on the cross and flanked by the Virgin Mary and Saint John, is considered one of the finest of many images of Calvary painted by this artist from Toledo. It is also [+]
Narciso, un joven de gran belleza, fue castigado por los dioses por haber rechazado a la ninfa Eco a morir de amor hacia sí mismo. Ovidio en el libro III de las Metamorfosis (370-510) cuenta: "(...) Y [+]
The painting is one of a series of eight scenes from Christ’s Passion painted by Giovanni Domenico (Giandomenico) Tiepolo as part of a commission from the fathers of the convent of San Felipe Neri de [+]
This work has recently been added to the donation made by Plácido Arango. It has been convincingly attributed to Francisco de Herrera the Younger due to the similarities between some of its det [+]
The old attribution to the Mannerist painter Pellegrino Tibaldi (1527-1596) may have been suggested by the handling, with its extensive passages of white heightening, as well as the Michelangelesque f [+]
An ivory Christ with copper arms that were probably added at a later date. The cross consists of various pieces of rock crystal joined by metal rods covered with painted parchment. The clasps are of e [+]
The goddess Eirene, bearing an olive branch, personifies Peace. She is surrounded by allegories of her bounty: prosperity, plenty, the progress of all the arts represented and the rejection of arms, t [+]
A miniature Roman reproduction of the famous statue that Phidias made for the Parthenon in Athens between 447 and 438 B.C. The original was about eleven meters in height and was of gold and ivory. The [+]
