Spanish Masters in Madrid Museums Flashcards

Spanish Masters in Madrid Museums - Final Selection

This is Professor Hernando's selection of artworks for study, in addition to the student's own selection. Students must identify the author, title, movement, and one characteristic of the historical artistic moment for each artwork.

Las Meninas

• Author: Diego Velazquez
• Date: 1656
• Style: Baroque
• Genre: Genre painting
• Media: Oil on canvas
• Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
• Dimensions: 318 x 276 cm

The Forge of Vulcan

• Author: Diego Velazquez
• Date: 1630
• Style: Baroque
• Genre: Mythological painting
• Media: Oil on canvas
• Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

The Third of May 1808

• Author: Francisco Goya
• Date: 1814
• Style: Romanticism
• Genre: History painting
• Media: Oil on canvas
• Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Charles IV of Spain and his Family

• Author: Francisco Goya
• Date: 1800
• Style: Romanticism
• Genre: Portrait
• Media: Oil on canvas
• Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Saturn Devouring One of His Sons (Serie “Black paintings”)

• Author: Francisco Goya
• Date: 1819 - 1823
• Style: Romanticism
• Series: Black Paintings (1819-1823)
• Genre: Mythological painting
• Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Figure at a Window (Young Woman at a Window)

• Author: Salvador Dali
• Date: 1925
• Style: Realism
• Period: Early Years (1917-1927)
• Genre: Portrait

Guernica

• Author: Pablo Picasso
• Date: 1937
• Style: Cubism, Surrealism
• Period: Neoclassicist & Surrealist Period
• Genre: Allegorical painting
• Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain

Portrait II

• Author: Joan Miro
• Date: 1938
• Style: Surrealism
• Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid,

A World

• Author: Ángeles Santos
• Date: 1929
• Style: Surrealism
• Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid,