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The Count of Orgaz died in 1323. According to legend, Saint Augustine and Saint Stephen appeared during his burial in the church of Santo Tomé in Toledo where, supporting the Count by the head [+]
Mounted on a white steed and flanked by an angel bearing a flag, Saint James gallops over a multitude of fallen Moors and horses. The battle scene occupies a rocky landscape in the middle ground. This [+]
Esta obra, junto con El hijo pródigo recoge su legítima (P997), La despedida del hijo pródigo (P998) y El hijo pródigo abandonado (P1000), son los cuatro únicos bocetos conocidos de una serie integrad [+]
Goya never actually painted the cartoon for this scene, which is one of his masterpieces, and the most popular of a series intended for the bedroom of the infantas in Madrid's El Pardo Palace. The pro [+]
This is a preparatory sketch for The Family of Charles IV. Don Francisco de Paula (1794-1865) was the youngest child of María Luisa and popularly rumoured to be the son of Manuel Godoy. In 1819 [+]
These are sketches for the frescoes adorning the main altar of the chapel in the Palace of Aranjuez. The brilliant, highly detailed technique reveals the lingering influence of the Italian, Corrado Gi [+]
This is a preparatory sketch for a painting of much larger dimensions (present whereabouts unknown). It depicts the Count of Floridablanca (1728-1808), Charles III’s all-powerful minister, accompanied [+]
Panini depicts the New Testament episode of Christ expelling the traders and money-changers from the Temple. The canvas may be a preliminary sketch for a larger composition. It was acquired by Charles [+]
En el plano superior aparece la Virgen sentada sobre una nube sostenida por ángeles; abajo y en sombra, ángeles músicos. El artista señala la existencia de planos a través del color y del detalle, más [+]
Corrado Giaquinto had frequent contacts with Spain as of 1735 or earlier. But the death of Jacopo Amigoni in 1752 led to his being summoned to Madrid the next year. During his stay in the Spanish Cour [+]
Ferdinand III bears a sword and the globe of the world in his hands while the kneeling Moorish king presents him the keys to the city, visible in the background. A lion appears on the left, and each k [+]
In 1268 the inhabitants of Toledo (the townspeople on the left, the clergy in the centre and the nobility on the right) processed out of the city down to the river to implore Saint Augustine to help t [+]
Francisco Bayeu worked as a court painter to Charles III from 1767; by 1787 -the date of this small portrait- he had produced a considerable number of decorations for the royal palaces and important c [+]
Apollo fights the terrible Python to free beautiful Andromeda, who was destined to be one of the victims of this monster. She is sketched in behind the beast. In the air, Cupid shoots his arrows into [+]
This is a preparatory oil sketch for one of the eight frescoes, now lost, by Bayeu for the dome of the collegiate church at La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia. They depicted the exaltation of the Tri [+]
El pintor napolitano se autorretrata sentado, mostrando con orgullo los elementos propios de su trabajo, como la bata azul con que protege su negro traje de abate, el caballete, a la izquierda, con un [+]
Giovanni Lanfranco painted at least six works that can be related to the commission to decorate the Buen Retiro Palace. The first five are at the Museo del Prado -Auspices in Rome (P236); The Allocuti [+]
Universally considered the most emblematic painting of Spanish 19th-century realist landscape, this spectacular panorama of Picos de Europa is also Carlos de Haes absolute masterpiece. He painted it a [+]
