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…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Juan Evangelista y San Francesco de Asís (St John the Evangelist and St Francis of Assisi) 1600 Oil on canvas, 110 x 86.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Madonna in adorazione di Gesù Bambino (Madonna in Adoration of the Child Jesus) 1518–1520 Oil on canvas, 81 x 77 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ercole coronato dalle Muse (Hercules crowned by the Muses) 1568 Oil on copper, 40 x 29.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)
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) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1470 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 74.2 cm National Gallery, London Saint George and the dragon must be one of the most fantastic saints’ legends to come down to…
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…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) La Visitazione (The Visitation) 1491 Tempera on poplar wood, 172 x 167 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Perugino (c.1446-1523) La Natività (The Nativity) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 26.2 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his…