En una composición horizontal, favorecida por el propio formato del soporte, se plasma una llanura con un desnivel en el centro del terreno en el que junto a un bosque de palmeras se alza un aljibe pa [+]
Sobre una explanada, arbustos cobijados por un pequeño promontorio. A la derecha, una construcción, semejante a un aljibe, y detrás, gran extensión de árboles frutales entre los que sobresalen los alt [+]
Surrounded by the apostles, Mary lies on her deathbed. Dressed as a priest, Saint Peter gives her a lit candle, while Saint John and another apostle read the Holy Scriptures beside her. The scene of t [+]
This majestic image was part of a cycle of seven altarpieces commissioned in 1767 for the new royal church of San Pascual Bailón at Aranjuez, founded by Charles III in the same year. The altarp [+]
This work was probably inspired by an early sketch by Cerezo, now preserved in the Hispanic Society in New York. Nevertheless, it already foreshadows a new 18th-century aesthetic. The Immaculate´s dre [+]
The mural paintings from the Hermitage of the Vera Cruz de Maderuelo were transferred to canvas in 1947 and reconstructed at the Prado Museum in a layout as faithful to the original as possible. The w [+]
An extremely broad development certainly makes this one of the most ambitious and complex depictions of the Immaculate Conception ever painted in Madrid, as well as one of the finest by this painter. [+]
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En el anverso, la Virgen sentada con el Niño, bajo una palmera. Dos ángeles arrodillados le ofrecen una bandeja de frutas. Fondo amplio de paisaje con figuras. En el reverso hay un apunte de composici [+]
The Company for the engraving of the paintings from the Royal Palaces was one of the Spanish Enlightenment’s major undertakings during the second half of the 18th century. It supervised the reproducti [+]
Es una litografía, sin encuadernar, de Pharamond Blanchard que reproduce el lienzo del mismo título de Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01169). Esta est [+]