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This “architectural capriccio”, a popular genre in the eighteenth century due to its evocative combination of reality and fantasy, depicts an imaginary landscape with the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius in R [+]
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 [+]
Although the painting entered the Museum as a copy of a work by Jan Both, it is recorded as an anonymous work by the Flemish school from the 1843 catalogue onwards. It is listed as such by Díaz [+]
At a harbour with ruins in the background, a young woman wearing an annoyed expression gathers the catch accompanied by a handsome sailor in a Phrygian cap who gestures authoritatively towards the you [+]
This is the largest of the paintings that Lemaire, a French artist working in Rome, produced for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The architectural ruins and sculptural fragments ar [+]
Acquired by Philip V for the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Idelfonso, where it appeared in a 1727 inventory, Carnival in Rome, 1653, is one of the best known paintings by Flemish artist Jan Miel. I [+]
This canvas forms a pair with that of Ruins with a Woman preaching. It depicts the Apostle Paul preaching, standing between the portico of a ruined temple and the temple of Vesta with the pyramid of G [+]
This view of the so-called Eagle’s Castle in Gaucín (Malaga), with the valley of the Genal River and the Plain of Gibraltar in the background, is similar to an earlier view by Villaamil’s maste [+]
This canvas depicts the Flavian amphitheatre in Rome, known as the Colosseum due to the giant statue of Nero that was located nearby. Robert was notably familiar with recent archaeological discoveries [+]
In a landscape with classical ruins that allude to the defeat of paganism, the Christ Child tends a lamb. Murillo based this image on a print by Stefano della Bella (1610-1664), while making use of hi [+]
The date of this painting has been the subject of critical debate for over a century. The 1889 edition of the Prado catalogue states that it was signed but fails to mention a date. The 1910 version de [+]
The author of this work has been identified as the painter of an Adoration of the Magi signed, apocryphally, Hericus Blesius Fecit (Munich, Alte Pinakothek). The Museo del Prado’s work presents the sa [+]
Both the royal inventories and Stchavinsky (1912) identify this scene as the story of Hecuba, wife of Priam of Troy. Wichmann (1923) disagrees, believing it to be the Finding of the bodies of Hero and [+]
During the years he spent in Rome, Van Poelenburch began painting scenes of this kind with small-or medium-sized figures, in which the presence of ruins is so powerful that they could almost be said t [+]
This painting forms part of the Altarpiece of San Esteban (Valencia), along with other scenes from the saint´s life (P00838, P00839, P00841 and P00842), as well as the Last Supper (P00846). According [+]
The scene here unfolds in the foreground, which is occupied by a large rocky outcrop and trees and on the right opens onto a luminous landscape enclosed by mountains in the background. The spatial tra [+]
The saint is depicted among ruins, imploring God to protect him from some small devils who disturb his spiritual retreat. The most striking element in the composition is its sophisticated lighting, wh [+]
This architectural landscape showing the ancient Roman city of Benevento, near Naples, was painted around 1759 by Antonio Joli of Modena. A painter of theatre sets and vedute, Joli worked for theatres [+]
