Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con colonna (English Landscape Capriccio with a Column) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 106.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down across a sun-drenched plaza with people scattered among ruins, buildings, and around…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del roseto (Madonna of the Rose Garden) 1469–1470 Tempera on panel, 124 x 64 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Noli me tangere c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 19.7 x 44 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite. Pala delle Convertite: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite c.1491–1494 Courtauld Institute of Art, London…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con un angelo adorante (Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel) c.1468 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 68 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Botticelli was one of the most individual and influential painters in Florence at the end of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La Calunnia (Calumny of Apelles) c.1496–1497 Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
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…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 64.8 x 139.7 cm National Gallery, London This is the second panel in a series of four paintings that tell the story of Florence’s patron…