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The Prado, translated from the Spanish by Richard-Lewis Rees and Angela Patricia Hall. New York: Abrams 1991. ISBN 0-8109-8147-5; Araujo Sánchez, Ceferino. Los museos de España. Madrid 1875. Blanco, Antonio. Museo del Prado. Catálago de la Escultura. I Esculturas clásicas. II. Escultura, copia e imitaciones de las antiguas) (siglos XVI ...
Venus and Adonis is a painting by the Italian late Mannerist artist Paolo Veronese, executed in the early 1580s, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is an oil on canvas and its dimensions are 162 cm × 191 cm (64 in × 75 in). The original painting was enlarged by 50 cm in the upper border in the 18th century.
The painting became part of the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid, in 1819. [1] [2] Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan has been cited as one of the most important works from Velázquez's first trip to Italy [3] and "one of his most successful compositions with regard to the unified, natural interaction of the figures." [4]
The Visitation is a c. 1517 painting of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth by Raphael, in the Prado Museum since 1837. [1] Commissioned by the Apostolic Protonotary Giovanni Branconio at his father Marino's request for their family chapel in the church of San Silvestre in Aquila (Marino's wife was called Elisabeth), it was plundered by the occupation troops of Philip IV of ...
Location Museo del Prado , Madrid Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary , also known as Lo Spasimo or Il Spasimo di Sicilia , is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael , of c. 1514–16, [ 1 ] now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
The Prado Annunciation is an altarpiece painted by the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico, in the 1420s. It is one of his best-known works. Originally destined for the convent of the observant Dominicans of Fiesole, the painting is currently in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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After the Museo de la Trinidad was merged with the Museo del Prado in 1872, the painting continued to be cataloged as Portrait of the Painter's Wife. The traditional date assigned to it was 1798; however, the first doubts emerged in the 1920s, indicating two different time frames: 1798, [ 5 ] 1790–1800, [ 6 ] and 1808–1812. [ 7 ]