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
Sant’Agostino nello studio (c.1490-1494)
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Madonna del padiglione (c.1490)
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…
L’Annunciazione (c.1485)
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…
Isabel la Católica (c.1848)
Madrazo y Kuntz, Luis de (1825-1897) Isabel la Católica c.1848 Oil on canvas, 225 x 140.8 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain was a museum project planned in 1847 by José de Madrazo to adorn…
Chez la modiste (1881)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Madonna del Pesce (1513-1514)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Pesce (Madonna of the Fish) 1513–1514 Oil on panel, 215 x 158 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Seated on a throne, the Virgin holds the Christ Child in her lap. On the right, Saint Jerome dressed as…
Madonna Sistina (1512-1513)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Sistina (Sistine Madonna) 1512–1513 Oil on canvas, 265.5 x 201 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Raphael originally created the Sistine Madonna on behalf of Pope Julius II for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto…
Ritratto di papa Giulio II (c.1512)
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Ritratto di papa Giulio II (Portrait of Pope Julius II) c.1512 Tempera on panel, 107 x 80 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Giuliano della Rovere (Albissola, Savona 1443- Rome 1513) was pope from 1503 to 1513 under…
La condition humaine (1933)
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La condition humaine (The Human Condition) 1933 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 x 1.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Two of Magritte‘s favored themes were the “window painting” and the “painting within a painting.” The Human Condition…
Erasmus writing (1528)
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus writing 1528 Oil on wood, 43 x 33 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Copie de mémoire de l’Erasmus de Holbein s.d. National Gallery of Art, Washington Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Erasme c.1899 Musée…