Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con Bambino e angelo (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1475–1485 Tempera on panel, 85.8 × 59.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this humanizing yet idealized depiction of the Virgin Mary embracing the baby Jesus, Sandro…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Madonna and Child with Angels after 1479 Oil on panel, 57.6 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling‘s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols…
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Gli storpi e malati curati presso la tomba di San Nicola (The Crippled and Sick Cured at the Tomb of Saint Nicholas) 1425 Tempera on panel, 35.5 x 35.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) The Infant Moses (Trampling the Crown of Pharaoh) 1685 Oil on canvas, 139.4 x 140.3 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna in Sassonia (View of Pirna in Saxony) 1763 Oil on canvas, 47 x 76.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Compare: Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna dalla fortezza di Sonnenstein 1750s Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also:…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Capriccio con arco romano (Capriccio with a Roman Arch) c.1745 Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 91.4 cm Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Paysage au tombeau (Landscape with a Tomb) c.1818 Oil on canvas, 250 x 220 cm Petit Palais, Paris Shortly after failing to win the Prix de Rome, Géricault set off for Italy in October 1816. No sooner had…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La mort de Germanicus (The Death of Germanicus) 1627 Oil on canvas, 148 x 198.1 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis The young Roman general Germanicus has just been poisoned by his jealous adoptive father, the emperor…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Villa sul mare (Villa by the Sea) 1929 Color lithograph, 32.7 x 41.28 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo (Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 116.84 x 149.86 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Christ’s expulsion of the money changers who were desecrating…