Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1523 Oil on panel, 94 × 68 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze By choosing to depict the sculpted figure of a young Saint John the Baptist standing out against a…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia con san Giovannino (The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist) c.1528 Oil on wood, 135.9 x 100.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With this grandly solemn composition, Sarto demonstrated that…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna col Bambino, sant’Elisabetta e il Battista (The Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist) c.1513 Oil on wood, 106 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary is seated with her…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Santi Agostino e Francesco, Santo Vescovo, e San Benedetto (Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Benedict) c.1452–1464 Tempera on paper, laid down on canvas, transferred from wood, 142.2 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) 1496 Oil on panel, 136 x 56 cm Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze This panel probably formed a triptych with the Crucifixion between Mary and Saint Francis, destroyed, and Saint Mary Magdalene. The other…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with Saint John) c.1480 Tempera on poplar, 59.1 x 43.8 cm National Gallery, London At the centre of this painting is the Virgin Mary, who covers almost its entire…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Crocefissione (Crucifixion) 1426 Tempera on wood, 83 x 63.5 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Masaccio (1401-1428) Trinità (The Holy Trinity) 1425–1426 Fresco, 667 x 317 cm Santa Maria Novella, Firenze In the third arcade of the left nave, in place of the altar, one can admire the fresco of the Holy Trinity (1425-1426) by Tommaso…
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…