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On entering the Museum this painting was inventoried as a product of the Sevillian school, though the 1876 catalogue lists it as a work executed in the style of Jan Both. Valdivieso (1973) considers i [+]
Christ shown to the People is an unfinished painting which allows to study the pictorial procedure directly, specifically the underlying drawing. It is a work in progress in which the first stages of [+]
After Bosch’s death, his style remained very successful both in the Netherlands and in Italy and Spain. This picture, painted nearly half a century after his death, is an example of the many that were [+]
The saint’s figure, with long blond tresses, occupies the center of the scene. Gazing at the heavens, she crosses her hands across her bosom in prayer. Her worn clothing is enveloped in large floating [+]
Companion of the work The Bonfire (P07111). Scenes of this type are commonly found in nineteenth-century paintings inspired by Goya. The artist’s followers looked to his most cruel, violent compositio [+]
This canvas represents the full body of a bishop from the front, wearing an alb, a rich brocade chasuble and a mitre. He appears in a meditative pose while reading a book, which he holds in his left h [+]
This canvas, painted by an anonymous artist, shows the upper body of a knight who persistently stares at the viewer, placed against a neutral background. It may be at the sitter´s request that the lig [+]
The principal beams are decorated with secular scenes, including dances, jousts or men fighting monsters, and with the coats-of-arms of Castile and León and those of the Luna and Rojas families [+]
As Pieter J. van Thiel suggests, this painting may be a copy made after an engraving by Jan Muller (1590) of Cornelisz. van Haarlem`s original Fortune bestowing her Favours, today at the Musée [+]
The work is one of the abundant copies of the Virgin painted by Onorio Marinari kept by the Galleria Sabauda in Turin as heir to the artistic assets of the House of Savoy (inv. 478, oil on canvas, 57 [+]
The painting may illustrate an episode from the Anglo-Dutch wars. Its condition makes it difficult to ascertain its authorship. The handling and arrangement of the clouds point to a late date, around [+]
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 [+]
We see the upper body of a figure, in profile, with his head raised to the sky. His arms and hands are stretched out in admiration and surprise. The saint is wearing a poor grey habit and his head is [+]
Marianne of Austria (1634–1696) was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III of Austria and his wife Maria. When she was 15 years old, she was betrothed in 1649, to her uncle King of Spain [+]
This portrait of Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504) is one of the earliest known depictions of the Catholic Queen, shown wearing a jewel she received from her father in a clear reference to dynastic co [+]
In spite of the optimism about the drawing´s authorship expressed by one of its earlier owners, this is surely a copy after a sixteenth-century Venetian composition, which I have not yet identified. T [+]
