Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Natività (The Nativity) 1523 Oil on panel, 46 x 35.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman and an older man kneel to either side of a nude baby outside of a barn-like structure in this vertical…
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…
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…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent St. Jerome) c.1502 Oil on olive wood, 29.7 × 22.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Attributed to Perugino (c.1446-1523) Perugino was one of the first Central Italian painters to experiment with complicated oil glazes. Inspired by the…
Guercino (1591-1666) Maddalena penitente (Mary Magdalene in Penitence) 1645–1649 Oil on canvas, 119.8 x 101.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Mary Magdalene is one of the most famous saints in Christianity, for having known Christ and because she represented the…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) The Lady of Shalott 1888 Oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm Tate Britain, London English poet Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1833) describes a heroine confined to a tower and cursed to die…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna Bardi (Madonna and Child Enthroned) 1484–1485 Tempera on poplar, 185 x 180 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The scheme of composition of the Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by saints and viewed in a unified, square picture, became extremely popular…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente (St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent) 1788 Oil on canvas, 350 x 300 cm Catedral de Valencia, Valencia See also: • Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía
Van Eyck, Jan (c.1390-1441) Madonna in the Church c.1437–1440 Oil on oak panel, 31.1 x 13.9 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Madonna in the Church is one of the most beautiful and precious works of art created by Jan van Eyck. Copies…