Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna anziana con libro, Maria Salviati? (Portrait of an Elderly Lady with a book, Maria Salviati?) c.1540 Oil on wood panel, 127 x 100 cm Legion of Honor, San Francisco Agnolo Bronzino executed this stoic portrait around the…
Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Saliera (Salt Cellar) 1540–1543 Gold, enamel, ebony, ivory, 28.5 × 21.5 × 26.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The only extant work in gold by this Florentine artist already famous during his lifetime, Cellini’s masterpiece is far more than a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino in un paesaggio con Tobiolo e l’angelo (Madonna and Child in a Landscape with Tobias and the Angel) c.1535–1540 Oil on panel, 85.2 x 120.3 x 1.7 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London This painting was described by…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1540 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Prior to 1874 this Virgin and Child was in the Sciarra-Colonna…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John) c.1540 Oil on poplar panel, 126.8 x 101.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone under the left foot of the…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Pietà c.1530–1540 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 127 x 163 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Incoronazione di spine (The Crowning with Thorns) 1540–1543 Oil on panel, 303 x 180 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted between 1540 and 1543 for the Confraternità di Santa Corona and placed in the funerary chapel of the brotherhood (decorated…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di un uomo barbuto (Portrait of a Bearded Man) c.1540 Oil on canvas, 97.79 x 85.09 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Caino uccide Abele (Cain Killing Abel) 1540s Oil on wood, 31 × 78.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e San Francesco d’Assisi (Virgin and Child with Saint Francis of Assisi) 1540s Oil on canvas, 67.5 × 66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest