Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 57.7 x 43.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Portrait de Femme (Portrait of a Woman) 1885 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A notebook kept by Fantin’s wife is said to record the circumstances surrounding this picture. The…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Salomè con la testa del Battista (Salome with the Head of John the Baptist) 1515 Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This early masterpiece by Titian, which illustrates the terrible biblical episode in a dark…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba (Altarpiece of St. Barnabas) c.1480–1482 Tempera on panel, 268 x 280 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Central Panel: Virgin and Child with Four Angels and Six Saints: Catherine, Augustine, Barnabas, John the Baptist, Ignatius and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1488–1490 Tempera on panel, h. 21 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This panel is part of the predella of the of the San Marco Altarpiece. San Marco Altarpiece: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Marco c.1488–1490 Galleria degli…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna della Melagrana (Madonna of the Pomegranate) 1487 Tempera on panel, diameter 143.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Madonna and Child with Angels called “Madonna of the Pomegranate” is a 1487 panel on wood full of symbols and…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli, Raczyński Tondo (Madonna and Child with Eight Angels) c.1480 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 136.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin It is possible that this circular picture used to belong to the Brothers of S.…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…