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The Roman saint Cecilia was martyred for her faith. As the patron saint of music she is normally depicted playing an instrument, crowned with flowers and accompanied by the angel who defended her puri [+]
The Triumph of Saint Hermenegild (d. 585) and of the Catholic Church over Arianism. The saint rises up to heaven surrounded by angels carrying the symbols of his origin and martyrdom: the crown and sc [+]
This altarpiece consists of nine large panels plus the eighteen that make up the predella. The main scene is The Virgin with the Christ Child surrounded by Angel Musicians, which is completed with fiv [+]
This decoration of the front of a chest depicts the seven Liberal Arts, accompanied by an equal number of figures that represent the most relevant personages in each discipline. All are being crowned [+]
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This is the earliest surviving work signed and dated by Carreño, and its style is still closely linked to masters from the first half of the century. Palomino, who knew and had contact with Car [+]
El santo aparece rodeado por ángeles músicos con diferentes instrumentos musicales representados con gran detalle, entre ellos un violón, un arpa diatónica, una guitarra y parte de un órgano realejo o [+]
This painting is made in three planes. At the top, Christ on the throne between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist with the Lamb at his feet, from which a spring flows. In the middle plane are a [+]
This set of paintings on the five senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch) was one of the most successful collaborations of Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel “the elder.” Rubens placed his figure [+]
En el centro, la Virgen coronada por dos angelitos, rodeada por la corte celestial. Abajo, ángeles músicos en las esquinas. El tema, para el cual se conocen algunos dibujos, fue muy trabajado por Guid [+]
In contrast to the paintings created for the Camerino d´Alabastro and the poesie made for Philip II, the canvases on the subject of Venus do not form a homogenous group as they were not painted for on [+]
The scene of the Adoration of the Magi, which begins with the depiction of the eldest Magus presenting his offering to the Christ Child (P125), is completed with this second one in which the other two [+]
Titian painted five images of Venus and music, but those five variations on a single theme were not made for the same client, nor intended to be exhibited together. Set in a villa, they show Venus rec [+]
This composition, together with the one that completes the episode, showing the other two Magi (P126), was painted to cover the doors of an organ, probably the one in the church of Santo Tomás [+]
A nearly symmetrical composition in which the Virgin Mary sits on a throne between two kneeling female figures. A canopy over her head is flanked by two heavy green curtains with gold binding, pulled [+]
La composición perfectamente encuadrada. En el centro, Santa Cecilia, sentada y tocando un órgano, un angelito, ante ella, le muestra la partitura. Dibujo romano del primer tercio del siglo XVIII, que [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa a ka Santa sentada de medio perfil hacia la derecha, tocando un órgano; ante ella una mujer con tocas, arrodillada. Atribuido de antiguo a Elisabetta Sirani, el dibujo n [+]
