Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac) c.1528 Oil on panel, 98 x 69 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This scene portrays the moment described in the Old Testament (Genesis 22, 1-19) in which, at the orders of…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna della Scala (The Virgin and Child between Saint Matthew and an Angel) 1522 Oil on panel, 177 x 135 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child, flanked on the right by an…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di donna (Portrait of a Woman) c.1514 Oil on panel, 73 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This half-length portrait of an anonymous woman is traditionally though to be of the painter’s wife, Lucrecia del Fede,…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Crocifissione (Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Baptist, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis) c.1460–1465 Tempera on panel, 45 x 67 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Vasari included a life of Uccello in the Vite. He described…
(1872–1956) Pío Baroja y Nessi Works: • Cæsar or Nothing (English) • Con la Pluma y con el Sable: Crónica de 1820 a 1823 (Spanish) • El amor, el dandysmo y la intriga (Spanish) • El aprendiz de conspirador (Spanish)…
(1562–1635) Lope Félix de Vega Carpio Works: • Comedias (Spanish) • Comedias inéditas (Spanish) • Fuente Ovejuna (Spanish) • La moza de cántaro (Spanish) • The Pilgrim of Castile (English) Born November 25 1562 Madrid (España) Died August 27 1635 Madrid (España)…
(1600–1681) Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño Works: • Eight Dramas of Calderon (English) • Life Is a Dream (English) • Teatro selecto, tomo 1 (Spanish) • Teatro selecto, tomo 2…
(1580–1645) Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas Works: • Historia de la vida del Buscón (Spanish) • Los Sueños, Volume I (Spanish) • Los Sueños, Volume II (Spanish) • Pablo de Segovia (English) • The Visions of Dom Francisco…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Madonna e Bambino con san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist) 1599–1600 Oil on panel, diameter 29 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This late work whose composition recalls those of Raphael, is…