Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione di Cestello (Cestello Annunciation) 1489–1490 Tempera on wood, 150 x 156 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Inscriptions: SPIRITUS SANCTUS SUPERVENIET IN TE ET VIRTUS ALTISSIMI OBUMBRABIT TIBI (Luca 1, 35) ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MICHI SECUNDUM VERBUM TUUM…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Prove di Cristo (Temptations of Christ) 1480–1482 Fresco, 345 x 555 cm Cappella Sistina, Vaticano
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1485 Tempera and gold on wood, 19.1 x 31.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e angelo (Madonna and Child with an Angel) c.1465 Tempera on panel, 87 x 60 cm Spedale degli Innocenti, Firenze An early work by Sandro Botticelli, it is inspired by the famous Madonna with child…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (Virgin and Child Supported by an Angel in a Garland) c.1465–1467 Tempera on wood, 112 x 74 cm Musée Fesch, Ajaccio Botticelli, like most of the artists gathered in this room, is Florentine.…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo morto sostenuto dagli angeli (Dead Christ Supported by Three Angels) c.1476 Oil on panel, 145 x 85 cm Museo Correr, Venezia Nothing is known about this masterpiece before it became part of the Teodoro Correr collection;…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Madonna del Rosario (Madonna of the Rosary Enthroned) 1473 Oil on panel, 129 x 76 cm Museo Regionale, Messina This is the central panel of the Saint Gregory Polyptych. Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Polittico di San Gregorio 1473…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Polittico di San Gregorio (San Gregorio Polyptych) 1473 Tempera on wood, 194 x 202 cm Museo Regionale, Messina Left panel: Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Gregorio 1473 Museo Regionale, Messina Central panel: Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479)…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Madonna Salting (The Virgin and Child) c.1460–1469 Oil on wood, 43.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary glances down at her baby son, Christ, who clutches a pomegranate in his tiny fist. The fruit,…