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…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (Virgin and Child with Two Angels) 1485–1495 Tempera on panel, diameter 34.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Sandro Botticelli’s works mark the culmination of a mystical religious tradition in the art of…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Pala di Gambassi, Madonna con Bambino in gloria e Santi (Gambassi Altarpiece, Virgin and Child in Glory with Six Saints) 1527–1528 Oil on panel, 209 x 176 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This is the central panel of…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino, santi e angeli (Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels) mid or late 1510s Oil on panel transferred to hardboard, 155.7 x 135.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) La Natività (The Nativity) c.1460 Glazed terracotta, 56.5 x 47.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1475 Glazed terracotta, 48.3 x 38.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Jupiter enfant nourri par la chèvre Amalthée (Child Jupiter nursed by the goat Amalthea) c.1639 Oil on canvas, 97 x 133 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Compare: Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Jupiter enfant nourri par les nymphes c.1650 National Gallery of Art, Washington …
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Jupiter enfant nourri par les nymphes (Nymphs Feeding the Child Jupiter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 117.4 x 155.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Jupiter enfant nourri par la chèvre Amalthée c.1639 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
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…
Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537) Madonna della melagrana (Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate) 1475–1480 Oil on poplar panel, 16.5 x 13.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the waist up, a woman stands on the far side of a…