Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Testa di Maria, in Adorazione (Head of Mary, in an Adoration) 1518–1523 Chalk on paper, 32.1 x 23.9 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Santa Barbara (Saint Barbara) 1522 Oil on panel, 48 x 39 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A portrait of Saint Barbara in profile on a black background. In her hands, she holds a tower, which was her symbol. A…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Bacco e Arianna (Bacchus and Ariadne) 1520–1523 Oil on canvas, 176.5 x 191 cm National Gallery, London Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Man 1522 Oil on panel, 57.6 x 39.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up, a clean-shaven man with pale, peachy skin is dressed in black and burgundy red in…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Woman 1522 Oil on panel, 58 x 39.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pair: Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Portrait of a Man 1522 National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La tentazione di Cristo (The Temptation of Christ) c.1516–1525 Oil on panel, 89.85 x 69.69 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna della Scala (The Virgin and Child between Saint Matthew and an Angel) 1522 Oil on panel, 177 x 135 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child, flanked on the right by an…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Santa Caterina (Saint Catherine) 1522 Oil on panel, 57.2 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up and nearly filling the picture, a young woman with pale skin, dressed in a jewel-toned gown and…
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Ritratto di dama (Portrait of a Lady) 1520–1524 Oil on canvas, 103 × 87.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A sensual version of Raphaelesque grace was produced by Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio, a painter who worked in Parma.…
(1522–1562) Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio Duchess of Firenze (1539–1562) Eleonora di Toledo in Art: Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo 1543 Národní galerie v Praze, Prague Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni 1545–1546 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze…