Landscape with the Finding of Moses is an oil painting on canvas of 1639–40 by Claude Lorrain, one of a series commissioned from the artist by Philip IV...
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The"' Finding of Moses'", sometimes called "'Moses in the Bulrushes'", "'Moses Saved from the Waters'", or other variants, is the story in chapter 2 of...
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Saturn Devouring His Son (redirect from Saturn Devouring One of His Sons)
produced a series of 14 paintings using mixed technique on the walls of the house. Although he initially decorated the rooms of the house with more inspiring...
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Mona Lisa (Prado) (redirect from Mona Lisa of the Prado)
same but with different style in both paintings, as well as the drawing's corrections. These findings, coupled with the excellent state of preservation...
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pool and the lake behind it echoes the lake in the earlier scene. The center image depicts the expansive "garden" landscape, which gives the triptych...
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The Finding of Moses is an oil-on-canvas painting by Paolo Veronese, executed c. 1580. It is held in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is one of at least...
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them to the Spanish state. The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling...
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1827. The painting shows a panorama of an army of skeletons wreaking havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape. Fires burn in the distance, and the sea...
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The Finding of Moses is an early 1630s painting by Orazio Gentileschi. There are two versions, the prime version is in The National Gallery in London and...
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on the world. The rightward bow of the figures around the wagon provides the force for the viewer's eye to move with them on their journey and the cart...
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The Madonna of the Rose (Madonna della rosa) is a 1518-1520 painting, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its attribution as by Raphael is uncertain...
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characteristics of the underlying drawing, the way the pictorial surface was developed, and the variety of strokes are entirely consistent with Bosch's later...
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Witches' Flight (category Paintings by Francisco Goya in the Museo del Prado)
or Witches in the Air) is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1798 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It was part of a series of six paintings...
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(Landscape with Tobias and Raphael, Landscape with Saint Paula of Rome Embarking at Ostia, Landscape with the Finding of Moses and Landscape with the Burial...
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Las Meninas (redirect from The Maids of Honor)
relationship with the painter. After Velázquez's death, Philip wrote "I am crushed" in the margin of a memorandum on the choice of his successor. During the 1640s...
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two halves, and the battle takes place in the background. The surrender portion of the scene takes place in the foreground, with the leading individuals...
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The Three Graces is an oil painting of the Three Graces by Peter Paul Rubens. The painting was held in the personal collection of the artist until his...
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apparently produced at the height of the war when materials were unobtainable, so that Goya had to destroy the plate of an earlier landscape print to make this...
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Museo del Prado (redirect from Director of the Prado Museum)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1510 Raphael, Portrait of a Cardinal, c. 1510–11 Joachim Patinir, Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, c. 1515–1524...
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tasked with retouching the goat's horns and a number of the witches' faces. He removed more than 140 cm (55 in) of landscape and sky to the right of the postulant...
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The Second of May 1808, by Goya, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes (Spanish: El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, La lucha con los mamelucos or La carga...
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Los caprichos (category Articles with short description)
associated with the Enlightenment, the criticisms are far-ranging and acidic. The images expose the predominance of superstition, religious fanaticism, the Inquisition...
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Saturn (Rubens) (category Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens in the Museo del Prado)
of one of his children. Child cannibalism Infanticide "These great Cronos swallowed as each came forth from the womb to his mother's knees with this intent...
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La maja vestida (redirect from The Clothed Maja)
seized by King Ferdinand VII. The origins of both paintings are unclear, with some sources claiming they were commissioned by the Prime Minister Manuel de...
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sense of great equilibrium and harmonious lines and reminiscent (both in its colour and form) of a heart. The main figure is the Virgin Mary, with a modest...
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be in front of the cross. To conceal the points at which the Cross and the ladder meet the landscape, Rogier has greatly lengthened the Virgin's left...
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Adam and Eve (Dürer) (redirect from Representations of Adam and Eve by Dürer)
even the outlines drawn with ruler and compass, first the Reclining Nude and the engraving of the Nemesis, both from 1501. But the only figure of which...
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La maja desnuda (redirect from The Nude Maja)
in images of prostitutes). With this work Goya not only upset the ecclesiastical authorities, but also titillated the public and extended the artistic...
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Ferdinand VII and without any sort of trial, José María Torrijos was executed on the beach of Málaga, together with other companions (such as Manuel Flores...
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Las Hilanderas (category Paintings by Diego Velázquez in the Museo del Prado)
ilanˈdeɾas]; "The Spinners") is a painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain. It is also known by the title The Fable...
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