Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Sleep and his Half-brother Death (Hypnos and Thanatos) 1874 Oil on canvas, 69.8 x 90.8 cm Private collection
Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con colonna (English Landscape Capriccio with a Column) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 106.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down across a sun-drenched plaza with people scattered among ruins, buildings, and around…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del roseto (Madonna of the Rose Garden) 1469–1470 Tempera on panel, 124 x 64 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Maddalena che ascolta la predica di Cristo (Saint Mary Magdalene Listening to Christ Preach) c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 20 x 43.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite. Pala…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La Calunnia (Calumny of Apelles) c.1496–1497 Tempera on panel, 62 x 91 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini (Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli) c.1470–1480 Tempera on panel, 65.7 x 41 cm Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510) was trained in Florence in the studio of Fra Filippo Lippi…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 74.5 x 54.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1500 Tempera and oil on panel, 83.8 x 176.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston According to legend, Lucretia’s brutal rape and tragic suicide precipitated the foundation of the Roman Republic. Botticelli…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Battesimo ed elezione di San Zanobi (Baptism of St Zenobius and His Appointment as Bishop) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 66.7 x 149.2 cm National Gallery, London Four Scenes from the Early Life of Saint Zenobius. This painting was made…