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Pallade e il Centauro (c.1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…

Pala delle Convertite (c.1491-1494)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite (The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist) c.1491–1494 Tempera on panel, 215 x 192 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Trinity with Saints is one of the most important paintings by Botticelli…

Madonna Bardi (1484-1485)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna Bardi (Madonna and Child Enthroned) 1484–1485 Tempera on poplar, 185 x 180 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The scheme of composition of the Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by saints and viewed in a unified, square picture, became extremely popular…

Sant’Agostino nello studio (1480)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Sant’Agostino nello studio (Saint Augustine in His Study) 1480 Fresco transferred to canvas, 152 x 112 cm Chiesa di Ognissanti, Firenze Compare: Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Girolamo nello studio 1480 Chiesa di Ognissanti, Firenze     See also: • Augustine of Hippo

Vir dolorum (c.1500)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Vir dolorum (Christ Crowned with Thorns Blessing) c.1500 Tempera on panel, 47.6 x 32.3 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Arrived at the Carrara Academy by bequest of Giovanni Morelli, like the other two paintings by Sandro Botticelli exhibited on…

Compianto sul Cristo morto (c.1490-1495)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1490–1495 Tempera on poplar panel, 140 x 209.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Botticelli created this depiction of a Pieta for meditation on the Passion, surrounded by female mourners and saints…

Adorazione dei Magi (1478-1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1478–1482 Tempera and oil on panel, 68 x 102 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to…