Bramante (1444-1514) Strada con vari edifici, colonnati e un arco (A street with various buildings, colonnades and an arch) 1475–1510 Engraving, 25.4 × 37.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Sacra Famiglia Benson (The Holy Family) c.1500 Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 37.3 x 45.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington An old man and a young woman holding an infant are seated together in the center…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Trasfigurazione con i santi Gerolamo e Agostino (Transfiguration, St. Jerome, St. Augustine) c.1500 Tempera on panel, 27.5 x 35.5 cm Galleria Pallavicini, Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini, Roma
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Natività mistica (Mystic Nativity) 1500 Oil on canvas, 108.6 x 74.9 cm National Gallery, London The infant Christ reaches up towards the Virgin Mary, oblivious of his visitors – the Three Kings on the left and the shepherds on…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Crocifissione mistica (Mystic Crucifixion) c.1500 Tempera and oil on canvas (transferred from panel), 72.4 x 51.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the 1490s, Florence came under the sway of the magnetic Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The century had…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuditta con la testa di Oloferne (Judith with the Head of Holofernes) c.1497–1500 Tempera on panel, 36.5 x 20 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Domenico (Saint Dominic) c.1498–1505 Tempera on canvas (transferred from panel), 44.5 x 26 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Botticelli’s work originally consisted of four parts: the two central ones carrying an Annunciation scene and the side wings with…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1500 Tempera and oil on panel, 83.8 x 176.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston According to legend, Lucretia’s brutal rape and tragic suicide precipitated the foundation of the Roman Republic. Botticelli…