Often, mother-of-pearl was glued to a support and then painted with opaque pigments to create images. Enconchada paintings and screens (biombos in Spanish) were popular products of artisans in 17th ...

has been identified as a rare and highly important 17th century masterpiece by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens - a pupil of Peter Paul Rubens who dominated painting in Flanders in the mid-17th century.

“I found something amazing—you must come see,” Spanish interior designer Luis ... Puerta had discovered a 17th-century palace in near ruin in a little village named Tendilla close to ...