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In contrast to most depictions of this episode, here Saint Sebastian has not yet been tied to the tree. Two executioners prepare his martyrdom. The divine light falling on him allows the artist to foc [+]
Although in 1660 Boschini mentioned a Self-Portrait of Jacopo Bassano in the Aromatario collection in Venice, the only surviving versions are replicas attributed to Leandro. The Prado work is identica [+]
The Roman patrician lady Lucretia killed herself after being raped by the son of the King of Rome, an act that brought about the fall of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic in 510 B. C. [+]
This painting is both beautiful in appearance and enigmatic on account of its problems of attribution, its authorship having fluctuated between several artists, all belonging to the aesthetic environm [+]
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 [+]
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La reina Mariana de Neoburgo (1664-1740), segunda esposa de Carlos II, lujosamente vestida, cabalga sobre un hermoso caballo blanco. Es evidente en él el deseo de imitar o emular a Velázquez, pues la [+]
The first known reference to this painting from the Spanish Royal Collection dates from 1700, when it was mentioned as being in the Alcázar, Madrid, along with another painting by Luca Giordano [+]
The girl’s unspecific appearance suggests that it is not a portrait. It may be an allegory of the senses or of virtue. The canvas dates from the latter part of Reni’s career when he considerably reduc [+]
Cleopatra VII (r. 51-30 BCE) was the sovereign of Egypt and the last representative of its final royal family, the Ptolemaic dynasty. Feeling that all was lost after her armies and those of her Roman [+]
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Giuseppe Recco, a member of one of the most famous families of Neapolitan still-life painters in the seventeenth century, was born in Naples on 12 July 1634. His vast output was consistently high in q [+]
Nani depicts a partridge and a female duck tied to a tree, a thrush and two quails, one of them already plucked and skinned in preparation for cooking. While the birds’ different states refer to vario [+]
This painting belongs to the Neapolitan group of scenes of ancient Roman life that were ordered in the early to mid 1630s by the Viceroy of Naples, the Count of Monterrey, to decorate the Buen Retiro [+]
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 [+]
These four paintings of flowers and sumptuary objects (P250, P251, P252 and P3239) are part of those sent from Rome to Madrid by Mario Nuzzi and other artists for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Pal [+]
An angel announces to the elderly Zacharias the birth of his son, John the Baptist. The painting is one of a group of six canvases on the life of that saint, four of them by Stanzione, one by Artemisi [+]
Sebastian was a Roman soldier who suffered martyrdom for his Christian faith during the reign of Diocletian and Maximian at the end of the third century. He was made a patron saint of the city of Rome [+]
