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La Vergine Annunciata (c.1430)

Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) La Vergine Annunciata (The Virgin Annunciate) c.1430 Tempera on panel, 76 × 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: lower left on the Virgin’s book: Ecce Virgo [con]cipiet [et] p / pariet fili[u]m / et uocabit /…

Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista (c.1428-1429)

Masaccio (1401-1428) Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista (Saints Jerome and John the Baptist) c.1428–1429 Egg tempera on poplar, 125 x 58.9 cm National Gallery, London Saint Jerome, wearing his red cardinal’s hat, and Saint John the Baptist stand side by side…

Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (1541)

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…

Ercole coronato dalle Muse (1568)

Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ercole coronato dalle Muse (Hercules crowned by the Muses) 1568 Oil on copper, 40 x 29.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)

Annunciazione (early 1420s)

Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) early 1420s Tempera and gilding on panel, 65 x 48 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Attributed to Paolo Uccello (1397-1475)

San Girolamo nello studio (1480)

Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Girolamo nello studio (Saint Jerome in His Study) 1480 Fresco, 184 x 119 cm Chiesa di Ognissanti, Firenze Compare: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Sant’Agostino nello studio 1480 Chiesa di Ognissanti, Firenze    

Madonna di Loreto (c.1507-1515)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna di Loreto (The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis) probably c.1507–1515 Oil on wood, 185.5 x 152.5 cm National Gallery, London This painting stood above the altar in a chapel built to commemorate a local carpenter, Giovanni…