Tag: Botticelli

Madonna con un angelo adorante (c.1468)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con un angelo adorante (Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel) c.1468 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 68 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Botticelli was one of the most individual and influential painters in Florence at the end of…

Ritratto di giovane uomo (1480-1485)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…

Galleria Pallavicini (Roma)

Location: Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini: Via XXIV Maggio 43, 00187 Roma Website: http://www.casinoaurorapallavicini.it/ Collection: • Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510): Trasfigurazione con i santi Gerolamo e Agostino (c.1500) See also: • Museums | Roma (Italia)

San Sebastiano (1474)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) 1474 Tempera on poplar panel, 195 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Roman officer Sebastian was supposed to renounce his Christian faith in order to serve as the bodyguard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he…

Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli (c.1480)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli, Raczyński Tondo (Madonna and Child with Eight Angels) c.1480 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 136.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin It is possible that this circular picture used to belong to the Brothers of S.…

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…

Madonna del padiglione (c.1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del padiglione (Madonna of the Pavilion) c.1490 Tempera on panel, diameter 65 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano This splendid tondo by Sandro Botticelli, executed with the tip of a brush with a miniaturistic attention, proposes an apparently conventional religious…

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