Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Palazzina e Bastione del Cavaliere (Knight’s Building and Rampart) 1527–1530 Architecture Giardino di Boboli, Firenze
Palazzina e Bastione del Cavaliere (1527-1530)
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San Nicola resuscita tre fanciulli messi in salamoia (1425)
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Storie di S. Nicola di Bari: San Nicola resuscita tre fanciulli messi in salamoia (Stories of St. Nicholas of Bari: St. Nicholas resurrects three boys put in brine) 1425 Tempera on panel, 35.5 × 36 cm Pinacoteca…
Sacrificio di Isacco (c.1527)
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac) c.1527 Oil on wood, 178 x 138 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In this dramatic test of faith from the Old Testament book of Genesis, Abraham agrees to slay his…
Uomo su una scala (1504-1505)
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Uomo su una scala (Man on a Ladder) 1504–1505 Oil on wood, 88.3 × 52 cm National Gallery, London This fragment of a larger painting shows an elderly man, almost bald but for a few tufts of white…
San Benedetto ordina a san Mauro di resuscitare san Placido (c.1445-1450)
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) San Benedetto ordina a san Mauro di resuscitare san Placido (Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 40 x 69.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two men are situated inside…
San Sebastiano (1653)
Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…
Composizione metafisica (1950-1960)
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Composizione metafisica (Metaphysical Composition) 1950–1960 Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
San Girolamo penitente (c.1502)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent St. Jerome) c.1502 Oil on olive wood, 29.7 × 22.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Attributed to Perugino (c.1446-1523) Perugino was one of the first Central Italian painters to experiment with complicated oil glazes. Inspired by the…
Compianto sul Cristo morto (1495)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) 1495 Oil on wood, 220 x 195 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Inscription: PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT A.D. MCCCCLXXXXV The body of Christ taken down from the cross is lying over…
Madonna col Bambino (c.1500)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1500 Oil on poplar panel, 70.2 x 50 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Seen from the lap up, a woman wearing a marine-blue robe over a crimson-red dress holds a nude baby…