During his visit to Valencia in 1802, the Literary University of the city gave the King this painting which shows the university, personified as a young matron, introducing the royal family to the var [+]
Dressed in French fashion from the second decade of the nineteenth century and wearing a stylish floral diadem on her head, the duchess holds a piece of music in her hands, alluding to her love of mus [+]
This painting depicts the baptism of Prince Juan. It is based on the description of that event from Historia de los Reyes Católicos (History of the Catholic Kings) by Andrés Berná [+]
Velázquez painted The Coronation of the Virgin for Queen Elizabeth of Bourbon`s new prayer chapel at Madrid`s Alcázar palace, where it was intended to complete the series of nine paintin [+]
Philip II’s two daughters Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566-1633) and Catalina Micaela (1567-1597), were repeatedly portrayed from the time they were very small by Alonso Sánchez Coello, one of the ki [+]
This is a fragment of Saint Joseph with the infant Christ, painted for the convent church of San Pascual in Aranjuez, and now in Detroit. Although Giambattista required the help of his son Domenico to [+]
The Triumph of Saint Hermenegild (d. 585) and of the Catholic Church over Arianism. The saint rises up to heaven surrounded by angels carrying the symbols of his origin and martyrdom: the crown and sc [+]
Masip depicts this fourth-century Roman saint´s second martyrdom, when, after having been condemned to be burned at the stake, the flames miraculously failed to touch her body and she was finall [+]
This preparatory sketch for the ceiling of Charles III’s former bedroom at the Royal Palace in Madrid depicts the Institution of the Order of Charles III following the birth of the King’s first male g [+]
The allegories, The Hours of the Day, were painted in 1819 by José de Madrazo in Rome just before his return to Spain, to be used in the decoration of the small palace in Madrid known as Casino [+]
Painters from Seville were very fond of this apocryphal episode from the Virgin’s childhood. Here, Murillo used it to bring various levels of reality into a single pictorial space: first, historical r [+]
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for the engraving of paintings from the Royal Palaces, although it was only published after that institution was no longer active.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 [+]
Estampa de Pierre Jacques Feillet que reproduce un lienzo de Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01168). Es la estampa LXVI con un texto explicativo de Jos [+]
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 [+]
Estampa de Pierre Jacques Feillet que reproduce un lienzo de Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P01168). Es la estampa LXVI con un texto explicativo de Jos [+]
Es una litografía de Ludwid Theodor Zöllner (1796?-1860) que reproduce el óleo de Tiziano conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P00418). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo CL acompañado [+]
Es una litografía de Ludwid Theodor Zöllner (1796?-1860) que reproduce el óleo de Tiziano conservado en el Museo Nacional del Prado (P00418). Esta estampa se entregaba con el cuadernillo CL acompañado [+]