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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 [+]
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 [+]
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 [+]
Dibujo en el que se representa al dios Baco sentado, acodado en el brazo derecho, que sostiene el torso, alza la izquierda con una copa.Con una técnica muy sumaria, se relaciona con otros también atri [+]
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 [+]
This preparatory drawing for an unpublished plate from the Caprichos is one of twenty-six pen-and-ink drawings known as The Dreams, which constitute the basis for Los Caprichos. They are headed by Dre [+]
Es uno de los escasos dibujos conservados de Francisco Ribalta y obra importante para el conocimiento de su estilo. [+]
Inscribed in brown ink on a strip of paper pasted at the bottom of the sheet: CHERUBINUS ALBERTIUS PICTOR ET ARCHITEC. FECIT QUI VIX AN. LXIII. DEC. MDCXV. The eighteenth-century inscription written o [+]
The last part of Album C -drawings 119 through 131- consists of a group of images that present clergy of both sexes with a degree of irony emphasized by the titles that Goya wrote on each page. Critic [+]
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 [+]
This work is an example of Goya’s last group of drawings, in which he shows monks and nuns removing their habits following their secularization -voluntary or forced. The drawing is a literal represent [+]
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. [+]
