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Utilising an almost photographic, frontal composition that enhances the naturalism of the image, Mariano Nani here depicts with great descriptive effectiveness the catch from a day’s hunting, which ha [+]
A portrait of Marco Grimani (d. 1583), a Venetian senator and contemporary of Tintoretto. In keeping with the artist´s customary portrait compositions, the sitter appears slightly turned, over a black [+]
Stylistically very close to Titian, this well painted canvas is not in fact by his hand. The sitter’s elevated social status is indicated by his carefully painted clothes while the inscription states [+]
This colossal head may be that of a giant, a figure taken from classical mythology in which such characters are described as being rough and primitive beings, possessed of remarkable strength and terr [+]
Seated and seen from behind, a boy plays with a goldfinch. The bird’s mate is perched high up on a branch of the slender tree, its sinuous line emphasising the verticality of the composition.This cart [+]
This canvas is one of a series of twelve still lifes that were listed among the artist’s possessions in 1812. Since his early years Goya included still-life elements in his canvases but there is no re [+]
Two boys are playing in front of a tree. One looks up as he grasps a branch as if about to shake it firmly while the other, in the background, has a basket, possibly for the fruit or birds’ eggs colle [+]
This is a preparatory sketch for the ceiling in the oratory of the palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia. It clearly depicts the structure of the dome, with its central part precisely defined [+]
The pyramidal composition and precise, polished forms of both the bodies and the drapery, all emphasised by the intense illumination, indicate the continuing and direct influence of Anton Rafael Mengs [+]
Court Painter, Director of the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and a key artistic figure in the period, Bayeu was Goya’s brother-inlaw and their relations were at times extremely tense. This portra [+]
An intense snowfall serves as Goya´s interpretation of winter, which is the subject of this composition. Along with this everyday representation, however, Goya introduces a social theme, as he often d [+]
At a harbour with ruins in the background, a young woman wearing an annoyed expression gathers the catch accompanied by a handsome sailor in a Phrygian cap who gestures authoritatively towards the you [+]
A young woman holding a girl by the hand receives a rose from another who kneels down to appreciate some flowers. A male figure behind them attempts to surprise the first woman with a baby rabbit he h [+]
Outside the entrance to the same fortress that can be glimpsed in the background of Fisherfolk, the gentleman now embarks with his elegantly dressed new wife, whom he has taken away from her old life. [+]
Three boys play together, trying to climb a small tree. One of them stands on another´s back and is helped by the third. The background combines the landscape to the left with a massive castle o [+]
The motif of the sleeping Christ Child is a traditional image that prefigures his death. He is watched by Joseph and Mary, who is surrounded by the roses that symbolise her. She restrains the Infant S [+]
The fruit in the foreground is projected with unrivaled expressive force—a superb rendering of its attractive freshness. The works sober composition is executed in a manner that brings out its author’ [+]
Rodríguez de Miranda was a leading landscape painter during the reigns of Philip V and his successors Ferdinand VI and Charles III. These three landscapes owe a debt to the seventeenth-century [+]
