Cimabue (1240-1302) Maestà con due angeli (The Virgin and Child with Two Angels) c.1280–1285 Egg tempera on wood, 25.6 × 20.8 cm National Gallery, London This is one of the earliest paintings in the National Gallery’s collection and a rare surviving…
Cimabue (1240-1302) Maestà (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Prophets) c.1290–1300 Tempera on wood, gold background, 384 x 223 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Cimabue (1240-1302) Maestà (The Virgin and Child in Majesty surrounded by six angels) c.1280 Tempera and gold on poplar, 427 x 280 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Gable shape at the top. Original frame comprising twenty-six painted medallions: in the upper…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Maestà di Ognissanti (Majesty of All Saints, Madonna and Child Enthroned, Angels and Saints) c.1300–1305 Tempera on wood, gold background, 325 x 204 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1310–1315 Tempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with pale skin holds a baby in the crook of her left arm, on our right, against…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1320 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 45.1 x 43.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture—at once austere and tender—belongs to a series of seven showing the life of…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’âge d’or (The Golden Age) 1862 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 46.4 x 61.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Jupiter et Antiope (Jupiter and Antiope) 1851 Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 43.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge à l’hostie (The Virgin with the Host) 1854 Oil on canvas, diameter 113 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Repetition with variants of the Virgin painted in 1841 for the future Tsar Alexander II (Pushkin Museum, Moscow). Compare: Ingres,…