Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Pala di San Gerolamo (S. Gerolamo Altarpiece) c.1490 Tempera on poplar, 235 × 258 cm National Gallery, London The S. Gerolamo Altarpiece, named after the saint prominently depicted at its centre and the church where it originally stood, is…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) San Girolamo in penitenza con santi e donatori (Saint Jerome in Penitence with Saints and Donors) c.1490 Tempera on poplar, 235 × 258 cm National Gallery, London This is the main panel of the S. Gerolamo Altarpiece, one of…
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns) c.1510 Oil on oak, 73.8 × 59 cm National Gallery, London Christ stares calmly out at us from the heart of this picture, his serenity a vivid contrast to the brutality of…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Santi Andrea e Tommaso (Saints Andrew and Thomas) before 1627 Oil on canvas, 61.5 × 78.1 cm National Gallery, London Gian Lorenzo Bernini was one of the most successful sculptors and architects of seventeenth-century Rome. This image…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La creazione di Eva (The Creation of Eve) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 81 × 103 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Madonna con Bambino e i Santi Domenico e Giacinto (Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth) 1730–1735 Oil on canvas, 274.3 × 137.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In this altarpiece, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo conceived the…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist c.1615 Oil on panel, 114.5 × 91.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago With this work, Peter Paul Rubens presented a distinctly human take on the figures of…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Saint Francis c.1615 Oil on panel, 99 × 78.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The Franciscans were among the reformed religious orders whose preaching and teaching activities helped revive the Roman Catholic Church in the Southern…
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) Dio Padre benedicente (God the Father Blessing) c.1450–1460 Marble, 78.7 × 55.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Pietro penitente (Penitent Saint Peter) 1628–1632 Oil on canvas, 126.5 × 97 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Emerging from darkness into a blaze of light falling from heaven, Saint Peter’s enraptured upward expression and gesture…