Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) c.1515 Oil on panel, 72 x 111 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph, Mary, and her newborn son, Jesus, have fled Bethlehem and are on the road to Egypt. They…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Madonna with the Dragonfly 1495 Engraving on paper, 24.8 x 18.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Donatello (1386-1466) & workshop Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1466 Terra cotta relief, in painted decor with gilt carved wood bracket, 56.5 x 40.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Donatello was the leading sculptor in Florence during the fifteenth century when…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Arcadie/Idylle: Famille de l’Antiquité (Arcadia/Idyll: Family from Antiquity) 1860 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 51.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Bouguereau, one of the most successful painters of the nineteenth century, was particularly admired in the United States. He…
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Scène allégorique (Allegorical Scene) s.d. Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 23.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life (Tod und Leben) 1910–1911 Oil on canvas, 200.5 x 180.5 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna Second version: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life 1915 Leopold Museum, Vienna
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life (Tod und Leben) 1915 Oil on canvas, 180.5 x 200.5 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna First Version: Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Death and Life 1910–1911 Leopold Museum, Vienna
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Madonna of Humility) c.1430 Tempera on panel, 60.7 x 45.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman sits in the center of this vertical panel painting and gazes down at a baby lying across…
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) Madonna col Bambino in una nicchia (Virgin and Child in a niche) c.1460 Glazed terracotta with gilt and painted details, 47.3 × 38.7 × 8.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most distinguished…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Natività (The Nativity) c.1473–1475 Fresco transferred to canvas, 161.3 x 137.2 cm Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Sandro Botticelli is arguably the most renowned Renaissance master of the 15th century. The Nativity is not only the sole Botticelli…