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…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…
Verrocchio (1435-1488) & Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) c.1470–1475 Tempera and oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The artist had the collaboration of his young pupil Leonardo, who executed the figure of…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Battesimo di Cristo (Baptism of Christ) c.1498–1500 Oil on olive wood, 30 × 23 x 2.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Perugino used his successful inventions again and again. This baptism goes back to his fresco in the Sistine Chapel. More…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) The Return of the Dove to the Ark 1851 Oil on canvas, 88.2 x 54.9 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Holy Grail (The Damsel of the Sanct Grael) 1874 Oil on canvas, 92 x 57.7 cm Private collection See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) 1849–1850 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 41.9 cm Tate Britain, London Inspired by the work of early Renaissance artists such as Botticelli (1445-1510) and Fra Angelico (1387-1455), Rossetti sought in this work…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere, Adone e Cupido (Venus, Adonis and Cupid) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Venus, the Roman goddess of Love and Beauty, is accidentally wounded by one of her son Cupid’s arrows,…