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On 14 February 1612 Juan Bautista Maíno signed the contract to execute the paintings for the monastery church of San Pedro Mártir in Toledo. Maíno agreed to a period of eight mont [+]
The pose of the Evangelist, seated on a mound in a landscape, with one leg astride the back of the ox, his attribute, recalls the painted figure of St. Luke in one of four irregularly shaped compartme [+]
Neoclassical painter Anton Raphael Mengs spent some eleven years in Spain -from 1761 to 1769, and again from 1774 to 1777- working primarily on the decoration of Madrid’s Royal Palace for King Charles [+]
This preparatory drawing for number 69 of the Disasters of War, Nothing. The Event will tell, very freely presents the original idea, and does not belong to the group of red-chalk drawings for that fi [+]
In Greek mythology, the chimera was a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat in the middle and a dragon in the hind. According to legend, she was a daughter of Typhaon [+]
Con vestido y peinado del siglo XVIII. Atribuido de antiguo a Barocci, es dibujo de gran calidad que enlaza con la escuela veneciana de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII y debe ser de un artista del cí [+]
In Bruns´s (?) collection as by the Venetian Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510-1592). P. Pouncey´s seems to be the recent anonymous hand that has noted on the modern museum mount: Cavedone? While the figures re [+]
Desnudo varonil sentado en una grada, casi de perfil hacia la izquierda, con el torso casi de frente y el brazo izquierdo alzado tras la cabeza (Texto extractado de Arnáez, R.: Catálogo de Dibujos. II [+]
A la derecha, Cristo, semidesnudo, muestra la herida del pecho; a su izquierda, inclinado, Santo Tomás introduce en ella su mano; los apóstoles aparecen al fondo en semicírculo. Presenta el estilo car [+]
The two Barbarian prisoners appear over the main door-way, to the left of a military trophy, in Polidoro´s facade decoration of the Palazzo Ricci, Rome (Ravelli, 1978, pp. 311-27; Leone de Castris, 20 [+]
A la derecha, caído San Pablo alza los ojos y el brazo derecho hacia Cristo que aparece en Gloria. Toda la parte izquierda de la composición la llenan dos caballos caídos en actitudes violentas. Las a [+]
A preparatory drawing for the print Disasters of War, 55, The Worst is to beg. One of Goya’s most singular conceptual contributions in his series of prints, Disasters of War, is his manner of represen [+]
It is possible that the drawing could be Florentine, since the child´s head shows some influence of Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556). [+]
Retrato de una dama que se representa con la cabeza de frente y un enorme sombrero de moda francesa de hacia 1785.Por su factura recuerda dibujos de Antonio González Ruíz. Podría ser obra suya de los [+]
This fast and loose sketch, made in black chalk with very few lines and surely drawn from life, is a preparatory work for a figure in the tapestry cartoon Dance on the banks of the Manzanares (1777). [+]
