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 [+]
A model for the tapestry on the same subject that belongs to a series of eight about the Greek hero. The Story of Achilles is smaller than other projects by Rubens, but the quality of its sketches, mo [+]
A model for the tapestry on the same subject that belongs to a series of eight about the Greek hero. The Story of Achilles is smaller than other projects by Rubens, but the quality of its sketches, mo [+]
According to prophecy, Achilles was to die in the Trojan War. In order to avoid this, his mother hid him in the court of King Lycomedes, disguised as a woman. There, he spent time among the king´s dau [+]
Traditionally identified as the work of Parmigianino, this drawing must have been an important icon in both Brun´s (?) and Fernández Durán´s collections on account of Carderera´s previou [+]
This drawing belongs to the Ajello Sketchbook, a group of fifty-nine unbound pencil drawings that were models for engraving to illustrate a descriptive calendar of sculptures that Philip V and his wif [+]
Fragment from an incomplete and fragmented Attic sarcophagus (E00118, E00120 and E00182) dating from around 250 A.D. with an especially interesting because it is the only example of its iconography. T [+]
Fragment from an incomplete and fragmented Attic sarcophagus (E00118, E00120 and E00180) dating from around 250 A.D. with an especially interesting because it is the only example of its iconography. T [+]
Fragment from an incomplete and fragmented Attic sarcophagus (E00118, E00120, E00180, E00182) dating from around 250 A.D. with an especially interesting because it is the only example of its iconograp [+]
Fragment from an incomplete and fragmented Attic sarcophagus (E00118, E00180 and E00182) dating from around 250 A.D. with an especially interesting because it is the only example of its iconography. T [+]
This work illustrates an episode from the Odyssey in which young Irus challenges Ulysses to a fight, which the latter wins in presence of the inhabitants of Ithaca. Ulysses stands with his back to the [+]