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Traditionally identified as the woman who was a sinner and wept on Christ’s feet and wiped away her tears with her hair (Luke 7:36-50), Mary Magdalene is shown here as the hermit saint she became upon [+]
Lorenzo Lotto`s various depictions of the penitent Saint Jerome span early versions influenced by Albrecht Dürer and Giovanni Bellini (Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1506) and by young Raphael (M [+]
The vault of the former Hall of Ambassadors at the Buen Retiro Palace, constructed alongside the former Royal Quarters of San Jerónimo at the behest of the Count-Duke of Olivares as a royal res [+]
A more than half-length depiction of the saint, standing in front of a skull and contemplating the angel who shows him a glass recipient filled with transparent water, alluding to the purity that anyo [+]
Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a model provided by the duke. The earliest surviving Ec [+]
According to Jacobus de Voragine´s Golden Legend (c.1260), 14 years after Christ´s Passion, Mary Magdalene and her companions were abandoned and set adrift in a small boat to die. The boat miraculousl [+]
The daughter of King Constus, Catherine of Alexandria lived in the early 4th century and was a martyr for her Christian faith. Famous for her beauty, wisdom, eloquence and chastity, she is frequently [+]
Christ lies dead on a bed beside which Pope Pius V kneels, surrounded by angels. Above them, two angels hold a chalice and a communion wafer, symbols of his death and resurrection. On the lower part o [+]
This is a very significant example of Camilo´s skill at representing uncommon narrative events. It presents one of the episodes in the story of desecration and offense to a crucifix by a family of Por [+]
A boy trying to do his homework buries his face in his hands to protect himself from the threat of an old woman´s whip. The brutality of the punishment is decisively underlined by the authoritative pr [+]
The woman in the drawing is an allegorical representation of Reason, whose fundaments are Truth and Justice. With a set of scales in her left hand and a whip in her right, she strides forward, whippin [+]
This statue and its pair (E00414) were found in the area of the Egyptian sanctuaries at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, near Rome. Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620-1677), their first owner following their re [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Claudio de Lorena conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02256). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo C [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Caludio de Lorena conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02256). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo C [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Caludio de Lorena conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02256). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo C [+]
Es una litografía de Léon-Auguste Asselineau (1808-1889) que reproduce el lienzo de Claudio de Lorena conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P02256). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo C [+]
