Tag: 1476

Giuliano de’ Medici (c.1475-1478)

Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1475–1478 Terracotta, 61 x 66 x 28.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Verrocchio, a favorite artist of the Medici, may have created this lively and commanding portrait on the occasion of a joust…

Baccanale con un tino di vino (c.1470-1490)

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…

Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci

(1453–1476) Simonetta Vespucci in Art: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane donna c.1475–1480 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin     Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Primavera c.1480 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze     Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Simonetta Vespucci c.1480–1485 Städel Museum, Frankfurt     Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Prove di Mosè…

Annunziata (c. 1476)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Annunziata (Virgin Annunciate) c.1476 Oil on wood, 45 x 34.5 cm Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

Ritratto d’uomo (1475-1476)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1475–1476 Oil on poplar, 35.6 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting shows how Antonello revolutionised Venetian portraiture in the late fifteenth century: the three-quarter pose, dark background and…