Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints) 1308–1311 Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Duomo di Siena, Siena This was the central panel of the Maestà altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena. Virtual reconstruction of the…
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) David Garrick 1770 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 63.2 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • Garrick, David (1717-1779)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (Finding of the Body of Saint Mark) 1562–1566 Oil on canvas, 396 x 400 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice,…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin) 1504 Oil on panel, 170 x 118 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, dating from 1504, was moved from the Church of San Francesco in Città di Castello to…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) c.1483 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Andrea Doria come Nettuno (Portrait of Andrea Doria in the Guise of Neptune) c.1545–1546 Oil on canvas, 149 x 199.5 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Paolo Giovio commissioned this portrait from Bronzino for a museum that…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1448 Tempera on panel, 45 x 50 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Jacopo Bellini was the father of Gentile and Giovanni and a great painter in his own right, unfairly…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna Greca (The Greek Madonna) c.1465–1470 Oil on panel, 84 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The so-called ‘Greek Madonna’ by Giovanni Bellini takes its nickname from the Greek μήτηρ Θεού, seen at the top of…