Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Retrato de hombre (Portrait of a Man) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The pragmatic of January 1623 that dictated a new dress code and has since been used to date…
Retrato de hombre (c.1623)
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Danae (1560-1565)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Francisco de Goya
(1746–1828) Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes The artist’s works: Juego de niños: El paso o el marro c.1770–1780 Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia El ciego de la guitarra 1778 Museo del Prado, Madrid Los borrachos, o El triunfo de Baco 1778…
Diego Velázquez
(1599–1660) Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez The artist’s works: El almuerzo c.1617 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg La educación de la Virgen c.1617–1618 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Almuerzo de campesinos c.1618–1619 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Bodegón 1618–1620 Art Institute of…
Émile Zola (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…
Venus del Espejo (1647-1651)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Venus del Espejo (Venus at her Mirror, The Rokeby Venus) 1647–1651 Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving female nude painted by Velázquez. The subject was rare in seventeenth-century Spain,…
El aguador de Sevilla (c.1623)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El aguador de Sevilla (The Waterseller of Seville) c.1623 Oil on canvas, 107.7 x 81.3 cm Wellington Museum, London This is one of the most famous early paintings by Velázquez, produced in his home town of Seville when…
Wellington Museum (Apsley House)
Opened: 1778 Address: 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London W1J 7NT, United Kingdom Website: https://www.wellingtoncollection.co.uk/ Collection: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822): Napoleone come Marte pacificatore (1803-06) • Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660): El aguador de Sevilla (c.1623) Apsley House in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London…
Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (1655-1660)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Las hilanderas, o La fábula de Aracne (The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne) 1655–1660 Oil on canvas, 220 x 289 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting is the result of two acts carried out in…
El dios Marte (c.1638)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) El dios Marte (Mars, God of War) c.1638 Oil on canvas, 179 x 95 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first documentation of Diego Velazquez‘s Mars is from 1701–03, when it appeared in the inventory of paintings…