Madonna col Bambino (c.1290-1300)

Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1290–1300 Tempera and gold on wood, 27.9 x 21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures…

Duccio di Buoninsegna

(c.1255-c.1319) The artist’s works: Madonna Rucellai c.1285 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Madonna col Bambino c.1290–1300 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Annunciazione c.1307–1311 National Gallery, London Guarigione del cieco nato c.1307–1311 National Gallery, London Trasfigurazione c.1307–1311 National Gallery, London La vocazione degli apostoli Pietro e…

San Paolo (c.1330)

Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) San Paolo (Saint Paul) c.1330 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 95.9 x 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, Paul became known as the apostle to the Gentiles. He…

San Ansano (c.1326)

Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) San Ansano (Saint Ansanus) c.1326 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 57.5 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel, together with a related work depicting the Madonna and Child in the Robert Lehman Collection (1975.1.12)…

Lippo Memmi

(c.1291–1356) Filippo di Memmo di Filipuccio The artist’s works: San Paolo c.1330 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Annunciazione e i santi Ansano e Massima 1333 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Madonna col Bambino c.1350 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born 1291 Siena (Italia) Died…

Simone Martini

(c.1284–1344) The artist’s works: San Ansano c.1326 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York L’Angelo dell’Annunciazione c.1330 National Gallery of Art, Washington Annunciazione e i santi Ansano e Massima 1333 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Madonna dell’Annunciazione 1340–1344 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Gesù che porta la…

Carità (1518-1519)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Carità (Charity) 1518–1519 Oil on canvas, 185 x 137 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for Francis I during Andrea del Sarto‘s stay in France (1518-1519).Coll. Francis I. (Louvre) See also: • François I, King of France (1494-1547)

Madonna degli Angeli (c.1515-1516)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna degli Angeli (Madonna and Child, Saint Elizabeth, Saint John the Baptist, and two angels) c.1515–1516 Oil on wood, 141 x 108 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris