In this work, Fortuny establishes an eloquent link between painting and music and a clear exposition of what his friend, the Baron Davillier, called his very lively and very pure taste in music. Fortu [+]
La figura en pie en el centro lleva en la mano una espada flameante, y en la izquierda, el escudo; en la parte baja, las figuras de los demonios, desnudos y contorsionados, ofrecen resistencia al arcá [+]
Traditionally attributed to the Sienese Francesco Vanni (1563-1610), this drawing was subsequently placed in the collection as the work of the eighteenth-century Roman painter Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787 [+]
The Genoese painter Giovanni Battista Gaulli, known as Baciccio, arrived in Rome in 1657, escaping the plague that had devastated his native city and his family. According to his biographer Lione Pasc [+]
The drawing is in effect one of many by the Neapolitan painter Luca Giordano executed during the course of his decade-long activity in Spain. The corresponding painting, from which this study differs [+]
Traditionally, this work was considered a preparatory sketch for the frescoes on the dome of the collegiate church at La Granja. In 1768 Charles III initiated the decoration of that church, and its do [+]
San Pablo, de medio cuerpo y de espaldas, vuelve su cabeza hacia el espectador. Sostiene en sus manos la espada y el libro. Éste (D01374) junto a otros tres dibujos, (D01371, D01372 y D01373) son cuat [+]
La escena enmarcada en una franja semicircular, como para decoración de un abanico. En el centro, el ara llameante, tras ella el anciano Agamenón alza el cuchillo para sacrificar a la joven; a ambos l [+]
En la parte baja, San José sentado sobre un sepulcro, sostiene al niño Jesús sobre sus rodillas; ante el dos ángeles le muestran una corona de espinas y el paño de la Verónica. Al fondo, la Virgen. En [+]
A la derecha, elevado sobre las gradas, el altar, ante el que San Gregorio muestra a los fieles los corporales; a su alrededor, arrodillados, acólitos y monaguillos; a la izquierda, el pueblo arrodill [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 11, Lads Making Ready (G02099 / G00644) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for the Caprichos. [+]
This preparatory drawing for the etching Capricho 54, The shameful one (G02156) is part of The Dreams, a series of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings that serve as the basis for The Caprichos. Headed by [+]
El personaje de frente, la mano derecha apoyada en unos libros, sostiene una pluma. Por la edad que Servidori parece tener en este autorretrato, unos cincuenta años, el dibujo podría fecharse hacia 17 [+]
This drawing is one of a series by Giandomenico Tiepolo dedicated to centaurs, fauns and other mythological creatures. The series is one of the most original creations by Giandomenico, son of Giambatt [+]
La composición incluida en un rectángulo terminado en un arco mixtilíneo por ambos lados. En la parte baja, los apóstoles en pie, arrodillados y sentados rodean el sepulcro vacío de la Virgen, del que [+]
Until now, this drawing has been dated in the 1630s, fundamentally because its subject matter can be related to the epidemics of cholera and leprosy that struck the city of Naples in those years. Styl [+]
The Provincial Council of Barcelona sent Fortuny to Morocco to compile graphic information for subsequent paintings on the most notable achievements in the Spanish-Moroccan War, in which Catalan volun [+]
Goya’s Album C exemplifies the complexity of his work. Made during the Peninsular War and the posterior repression under the reign of Ferdinand VII, it addresses subjects linked to many facets of that [+]