Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez · 1656
Museo del Prado
Madrid
Las Meninas has been puzzling people for three and a half centuries, and Goya's Third of May still hits like a shout. Both hang here.
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Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez · 1656
Las Meninas is a 1656 oil painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. It has become one of the most widely analysed works in Western painting for the way its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures depicted.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Hieronymus Bosch · 1490
The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a five-panel triptych (three oil-painted panels when open, two oak panels when closed) by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. Because of Bosch's religious beliefs, interpretations of the work typically assume it is a warning against the perils of temptation.
La maja desnuda
Francisco Goya · 1795
The Naked Maja or The Nude Maja is an oil-on-canvas painting made around 1797 to 1800 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1901. It portrays a nude woman reclining on a bed of pillows, and was probably commissioned by Manuel Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings.
The Third of May 1808
Francisco Goya · 1814
The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (commonly known as The Third of May 1808) and also known, in Spanish, as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo, is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of Madrid in 1808 at the start of the Peninsular War.
The Surrender of Brea
Diego Velázquez · 1634
Saturn Devouring His Son
Francisco Goya · 1820
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house some time between 1820 and 1823.
Artists
Spanish · 1746–1828 · Romanticism
Spain · 1599–1660
Italian · 1488–1576 · Venetian school
Flemish · 1577–1640 · Flemish Baroque painting
Spain · 1598–1664
Dutch · 1450–1516 · Early Netherlandish painting
Holy Roman Empire · 1483–1520
Spain · 1617–1682
Greek · 1541–1614 · Spanish Renaissance
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
Spanish · 1591–1652 · Baroque
Duchy of Brabant · 1525–1569
Artworks
David and Goliath
Caravaggio · 1600
The Fable
El Greco · 1580
The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
Hieronymus Bosch · 1500
The Garden of Love
Peter Paul Rubens · 1630
The Good Shepherd
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1664
Annunciation
Fra Angelico · 1420
The Jester Named Don John of Austria
Diego Velázquez · 1632
The Ages and Death
Hans Baldung Grien · 1541
Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes
Rembrandt · 1634
Women Gladiators
Jusepe de Ribera · 1636
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx
Joachim Patinir · 1515
The Immaculate Conception
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1767
Sources
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