Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Venere e Marte (Venus and Mars) c.1485 Tempera and oil on poplar, 69.2 x 173.4 cm National Gallery, London Venus, the goddess of love, looks over at her lover Mars. She is alert and dignified, while he – the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nascita di Venere (Birth of Venus) c.1485 Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the…
(1485–1536) Queen consort of England (1509–1533) Lady of Ireland (1509–1533) Catherine of Aragon in Film: Anne of the Thousand Days 1969 Director: Charles Jarrott Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold Isabel 2012–2014 Director: Jordi Frades Starring: Michelle Jenner, Rodolfo Sancho Born…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con Bambino (Samuel H. Kress Collection) 1480–1485 Oil on panel, 52.3 x 41.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up, a young woman holds a baby up against her chest in this vertical…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Ritratto di Musico (Portrait of a Musician) c.1485 Tempera and oil on panel, 44.7 x 32 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano The only painting on panel by Leonardo to have remained in Milan, this portrait was traditionally thought to…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (The Virgin of the Rocks) c.1483–1486 Oil on wood transferred to canvas 199.5 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is mentioned for the first time in 1625 at the Château de Fontainebleau.…
Rulers: • Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus (1474-1489) • Fernando II, King of Sicily (1468-1516) • Fernando II, King of Castile and León (1475-1504) • Fernando II, King of Aragón, Majorca, Sardinia and Valencia (1479-1516) • Fernando II, Count of…