Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Baccanale con un tino di vino (Bacchanal with a Wine Vat) c.1470–1490 Engraving and drypoint, 29.9 x 43.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Throughout his life, Mantegna was fascinated with classical antiquity. In the middle of…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) 1470–1474 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Rulers: • Enrique IV, King of Castile and León (1454-1474) • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Lorenzo I de’ Medici, Signore di Firenze (1469-1492) Births: • Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Deaths: • Malory, Sir Thomas (c.1415-1471) Art: • Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516): Madonna col Bambino (1470-80) • Botticelli,…
(1471–1528) The artist’s works: Birth of the Virgin 15th century Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge Die Drahtziehmühle c.1489 Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin Barbara Dürer, née Holper c.1490 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg Albrecht Dürer the Elder 1490 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Self-Portrait Holding a Thistle 1493 Musée…
(c.1415–1471) Sir Thomas Malory Works: • Le Morte Darthur (The Death of Arthur) Malory in Art: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur…