Hercules Separates Mounts Calpe and Abylla is a work by Francisco de Zurbarán, created in 1634. The painting measures 136 × 167 centimeters. It is in the...

Achelous and Hercules is a 1947 mural painting by Thomas Hart Benton. It depicts a bluejeans-wearing Hercules wrestling with the horns of a bull, a shape...

Genesis 1:7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. |...

Heracles, also known as Hercules, is a Greek and Roman mythological hero known for his strength and far-ranging adventures. He is one of the most commonly...

complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and for the uncertain relationship it creates between the viewer and the figures...

havoc across a blackened, desolate landscape. Fires burn in the distance, and the sea is littered with shipwrecks. A few leafless trees stud hills otherwise...

Mona Lisa is a painting by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci and depicts the same subject and composition as Leonardo's better known Mona Lisa at the Louvre...

the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals required restoration work and some detail may have been...

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch or to a follower of his, completed...

the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals required restoration work and some detail may have been...

Defence of Cádiz against the English, 1634, Museo del Prado, Madrid Hercules and the Hydra, 1634, Museo del Prado, Madrid A Doctor of Law, 1635, Isabella...

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, reverential, and emotional...

Weiss, but had been separated from him since 1811 after he had accused her of "illicit conduct". She had two children before that time and bore a third, Rosario...

Hercules and the Hydra is a 1634 painting by Francisco de Zurbarán of Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It was from...

not known from the Greek myths of Heracles or the Roman and later classical myths of Hercules. In the Etruscan tradition, Uni (Roman Juno) grants Hercle...

of Sebastián de Morra, a court dwarf and jester at the court of Philip IV of Spain. It was painted around 1644 and is now in the Prado in Madrid. Not much...

Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, and Diego Velázquez, are some of the highlights of the collection. Velázquez and his keen eye and sensibility were also responsible...

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...

Two Old Men, also known as Two Monks or An Old Man and a Monk (Spanish: Dos viejos, Dos frailes, or Un viejo y un fraile), are names given to one of the...

commissioned by Manuel de Godoy, to hang in his private collection in a separate cabinet reserved for nude paintings. Goya created a pendant of the same...

Agnus Dei (Latin for Lamb of God) is an oil painting completed between 1635 and 1640 by the Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán. It is housed in...

Prometheus, who was bound on a mountain and left to be savaged by an eagle as punishment for stealing fire from Mount Olympus. The painting's range of color...

Judith and Holofernes is the name given to one of the 14 Black Paintings painted by Francisco de Goya between 1819 and 1823. By this time, Goya was in...

Hercules' Club (also Hercules-club, Club-of-Hercules; German Herkuleskeule, Donarkeule) is a Roman Empire and Migration-era artefact type. Roman-era Hercules's...

c. 1435 date is estimated based on the work's style, and because the artist acquired wealth and renown around this time, most likely from the prestige...

Venus and Musician refers to a series of paintings by the Venetian Renaissance painter Titian and his workshop. Titian's workshop produced many versions...

Madrid. It was commissioned for the Torre de la Parada by Philip IV of Spain and shows the influence of Michelangelo on Rubens, which he had picked up on...

Caprices) is a set of 80 prints in aquatint and etching created by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1797–1798 and published as an album in 1799. The prints...

fantástica) are names given to a fresco painting likely completed between 1820 and 1823 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It shows two flying figures hovering...

Maja) is an oil painting on canvas created between 1800 and 1807 by the Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. It is a clothed version of...