Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Santi Gregorio Magno e Mattia (Saint Gregory? and Saint Matthias) c.1428–1429 Tempera grassa and oil on poplar, transferred to fibreboard, 126.3 x 59.1 cm National Gallery, London Saint Matthias is shown holding the axe that was used…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Il tributo (The Tribute Money) c.1425 Fresco, 255 x 598 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze
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…
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…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Adoration of the Magi 1504 Oil on panel, 99 x 113.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Battaglia di San Romano (The Battle of San Romano) c.1438–1440 Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar, 182 × 320 cm National Gallery, London It’s hard to follow what’s going on in this large and busy…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ) c.1473 Fresco, 284.5 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This imposing, well-preserved mural is an early work by Ghirlandaio, one of the most popular painters in late-fifteenth-century…
Probably Perugino (c.1446-1523) Cristo coronato di spine (Christ Crowned with Thorns) c.1500–1505 Oil on wood, 40.3 x 32.4 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown as a prisoner, a rope around his neck. He wears a crown of thorns and a purple…
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…