Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Venere e il suonatore di liuto (Venus and the Lute Player) c.1565–1570 Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Venus, the goddess of love, interrupts her music making to be crowned…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Isabella del Portogallo (Portrait of Isabella of Portugal) 1548 Oil on canvas, 117 cm x 98 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The portraits that Titian painted of Isabella (1503-1539), daughter of King Manuel of Portugal and wife…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Carlo V con il cane (Portrait of Charles V with a Dog) 1533 Oil on canvas, 194 x 112.7 x 3.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The period between 1530 and 1533 was crucial for the formulation…
Seisenegger, Jakob (1505-1567) Emperor Charles V with His Hound 1532 Oil on canvas, 203.5 x 123 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Charles V was the eldest son of Philipp the Handsome and Joan of Castile. After the death of his grandfather…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (Virgin and Child with St. Dorothy and St. George) c.1515–1518 Oil on panel, 86 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The authorship, dating and iconography of this work are all controversial. It…
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) Scoperta del cadavere di Oloferne (Discovery of the Body of Holofernes) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 31 x 24 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Sant’Agostino nello studio (St. Augustine in His Cell) c.1490–1494 Tempera on panel, 41 x 27 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Augustine of Hippo
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del padiglione (Madonna of the Pavilion) c.1490 Tempera on panel, diameter 65 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano This splendid tondo by Sandro Botticelli, executed with the tip of a brush with a miniaturistic attention, proposes an apparently conventional religious…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1485 Tempera and gold on wood, 19.1 x 31.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing…