The thin naked torso, the cloth made from rushes, the skull and the book suggest that the figure in the painting is a hermit; the bread crust in the foreground tells us that it is Saint Paul, the firs [+]
Orrente here adheres to his practice of using religious scenes as a pretext to paint landscapes influenced by the famous works of the Bassano family. In this work he depictsthe 4th -century saint in h [+]
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 [+]
The subject is drawn from the narration in Jacobo de la Voragine`s 13th-century Golden Legend of Saint Anthony the Abbot`s voyage to the Egyptian desert to visit Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit [+]
Standing in the foreground with a crozier at his feet, Saint Anthony looks to the heavens and orders the lions to leave the grave so that he can bury Saint Paul, who lies on a boulder above at the cen [+]
The painting entered the Museum as an original work by Herman van Swanevelt. This attribution is maintained in later catalogues and accepted by all authors. In early Museum catalogues the work is desc [+]
Nicolas Poussin has a curious relation to the Buen Retiro Palace. Úbea considers him the determinant artist among all those who took part in its decorative project. That could explain why he wa [+]
Saint Paul, the first hermit, is shown meditating before a skull in solitude. This work dates from the final stage of Ribera’s career, which, in contrast to the darkness of his early years, is a phase [+]
Fortuny produces a faithful interpretation of Jusepe de Ribera’s painting in the Museo del Prado, though his attention is focused exclusively on capturing the effects of the light on an elderly man’s [+]
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 [+]
This print is part of a series published by the Company for the engraving of paintings from the Royal Palaces, although it was only published after that institution was no longer active. The Company f [+]
Es una litografía de Leon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Nicolas Poussin conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02304). El título de la estampa es S.n. Geronimo en el D [+]
Es una litografía de Leon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Nicolas Poussin conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02304). La estampa se titula S. Geronimo en el desierto. [+]
Es una litografía de Leon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Nicolas Poussin conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02304). El título de la estampa es S.n Geronimo en el de [+]
Es una litografía de Leon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Nicolas Poussin conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02304). El título que aparece en la estampa es Sn. Geron [+]
This print is part of a series published by the Company for the engraving of paintings from the Royal Palaces, although it was only published after that institution was no longer active. The Company f [+]
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 [+]