Showing posts with label Artist: Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Artist: Spanish. Show all posts

25 May 2021

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). The Vision of Saint John, ca. 1614 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).



Oil on canvas: 222.3 x 193 cm. Originally an altarpiece referred to as 'Profane Love', and later renamed 'The Opening of the Fifth Seal'. Its modern composition is due to a restoration around 1880 when the upper portion of the canvas was cut down. It makes so much sense that this painting was the inspiration for 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'.

Visit > Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
More > El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) at Wikipedia.

10 March 2021

Diego Velázquez. Infanta Margarita Teresa in a blue Dress (‘Infantin Margarita Teresa in blauem Kleid’), 1659 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).



Oil on canvas: 125.5 x 106 cm. Margaret Theresa of Spain, the blonde princess as depicted in ‘Las Meninas’ (1656). Given in marriage to emperor Leopold I (who was her maternal uncle and paternal cousin).

Visit > Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > Diego Velázquez at Wikipedia.
More > Margarita Teresa at Wikipedia.