Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio (Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria and a Shepherd, known as The Virgin with the Rabbit) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 71 × 87 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au lapin, d’après Titien (The Virgin with the Rabbit, after Titian) c.1850 Oil on canvas, 70 × 84 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio c.1530 Musée du Louvre, Paris
Guercino (1591-1666) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystical Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria) 1620 Oil on canvas, 88 x 70 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Guercino (1591-1666) Martirio di santa Caterina (Martyrdom of St Catherine) 1653 Oil on canvas, 222.5 x 159 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba (Altarpiece of St. Barnabas) c.1480–1482 Tempera on panel, 268 x 280 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Central Panel: Virgin and Child with Four Angels and Six Saints: Catherine, Augustine, Barnabas, John the Baptist, Ignatius and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di Sant’Ambrogio (Madonna and Child with Six Saints) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 170 x 194 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Altarpiece of Sant’Ambrogio, depicting the Madonna with Child and Saints, painted around 1470, when the artist was…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1598–1599 Oil on canvas, 173 x 133 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This painting was almost certainly commissioned in Rome by Caravaggio’s first patron, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. Captured in a strikingly…