Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Caterina e Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and John the Baptist) c.1496–1500 Oil on panel, 50 x 81 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Apoteosi di sant’Orsola e delle sue compagne (Apotheosis of Saint Ursula and her companions) 1491 Oil on canvas, 481 x 335 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the nineth of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Martirio dei pellegrini e funerali di Orsola (Martyrdom of the Pilgrims and Funeral of St Ursula) 1493 Oil on canvas, 271 x 560 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the eighth of nine paintings in the cycle of the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1540–1542 Oil on canvas, 201 x 119 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Pietà 1575–1576 Oil on canvas, 353 x 347 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Detail with Titian’s self-portrait as an old man kneeling before Christ.
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Gesù che porta la croce (Carrying of the Cross) 1560s Oil on canvas, 89 x 77 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Beginning in the 1530s Renaissance culture entered a period of decline in Italy. Venice remained the last bastion of…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Gesù che porta la croce (Carrying of the Cross) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 67 x 77 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Renaissance painting abounds with representations of Christ bearing the cross on the road to Calvary, either as an isolated…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salvator mundi (Christ Blessing) c.1570 Oil on canvas, 96 x 80 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Christ on the Cross 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 133 x 101 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Christ on the Cross 1627 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Bosch, Hieronymus (c.1450-1516) Adoration of the Magi c.1494 Oil on oak panel, 147.4 x 168.6 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Closed: The theme of this triptych is the advent of salvation -a message about the universality of Redemption. The Eucharistic meaning…