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Considered to be, with good reason, the most beautiful nude in nineteenth-century Spanish painting, this work provides eloquent testimony of the modernity that made Rosales stand out in the Spanish ar [+]
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in Flanders and Holland in the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early i [+]
This painting formed part of the collection of the Marquis of Castro-Serna (Madrid) where, according to Michel (1887) -who repeats information given by Alfonso de Stuers- it appeared in 1887 as a pend [+]
This work belongs to the so-called peasant interiors, one of the new genres of painting that emerged and developed in Flanders and Holland in the early seventeenth century. In Houbraken and in early i [+]
This work is an excellent example of the way in which an interest in the art of Spain´s Golden Age combines in Mariano Fortuny´s paintings with the close study of subjects made from life. Nude Old Man [+]
In the summer of 1874, Fortuny found the Tyrrhenian sea to be a constant stimulus for painting outdoors. The cobalt-blue of the expanse of water is the predominant feature of this seascape, depicted f [+]
Rico moved to Andalusia in 1870 and worked alongside his friend Mariano Fortuny. While in Seville he painted views of the area around the Guadaira river, dotted with market gardens and orange trees. R [+]
This work is a typical example of the watercolours Fortuny produced in his Roman studio during winter and early spring afternoons and evenings. In them he painted Arab subjects based on free interpret [+]
Fortuny was particularly interested in the human types who were part of Rome’s urban landscape. Prominent among them were these Capuchin friars dressed in the characteristic brown tunic and long cloak [+]
Antonio Fabrés, one of the leading fin-de-siècle orientalist painters, made various paintings of thieves condemned to death (as indicated in Arabic on the shingle at the head of this one [+]
This watercolor offers a profile view -similar to a low relief- of a child or young faun sitting on a fragment of an Ionic entablature with egg-and-dart decorations above an astragal. The slender, nud [+]
A decisive breakthrough in the career of the Tuscan painter Lodovico Cigoli came with his contribution to a series of six paintings required for the new altars for St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Accordi [+]
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This watercolour is part of a group of works Fortuny painted shortly before returning to Rome in 1868 using the people around him as models. María Teresa was the only child born of the marriage [+]
Hasta la Guerra Civil, en la que fue destruido el santuario una noche de diciembre de 1937, La Piedad de Ponzano estuvo en el templo de la Virgen de Riánsares, en Tarancón (Cuenca), sobre la cripta do [+]
El catalán Luis Rigalt fue uno de los más destacados representantes del paisajismo español del siglo XIX y su producción pictórica abarcó prácticamente toda la centuria, evidenciándose en ella su evol [+]
In the summer of 1874 Fortuny settled in a seaside villa in Portici, near Naples, where he painted several landscapes and seascapes that show his interest in the study of painting from life. This inte [+]
En la escena, se representa a la Virgen arrodillada en un reclinatorio, sobre el que apoya un libro de oraciones; a la derecha, el Arcángel San Gabriel, arrodillándose ante ella, le anuncia el misteri [+]
