Tag: angel

Pietà (c.1500)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels) c.1500 Oil on panel, 17.5 x 33.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Angelo adorante (c.1495)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Angelo adorante (An Angel Adoring) c.1495 Tempera on wood, 55.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting is a damaged fragment of a larger composition by the Florentine painter Filippino Lippi. The original appearance of the complete picture…

Sant’Anna Metterza (c.1424-1425)

Masaccio (1401-1428) & Masolino (c.1383-c.1440) Sant’Anna Metterza (Saint Anna, the Madonna with Child and five angels) c.1424–1425 Tempera on panel, 175 x 103 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The term ‘Metterza’ comes from the Tuscan dialect and means ‘mi è terza’ (“I…

Madonna dell’Umiltà (1423-1424)

Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Madonna of Humility) 1423–1424 Tempera on panel, 105.6 x 54.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a nude baby boy sits on a blue patterned pillow on the floor in front of a…

Madonna col Bambino (1426)

Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) 1426 Egg tempera on wood, 134.8 x 73.5 cm National Gallery, London This was once the central panel of an altarpiece, probably a polyptych, made by Masaccio for the Carmelite church of Santa…

San Sebastiano (1653)

Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…

Natività (early 1480s)

Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…