Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di Sant’Ambrogio (Madonna and Child with Six Saints) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 170 x 194 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Altarpiece of Sant’Ambrogio, depicting the Madonna with Child and Saints, painted around 1470, when the artist was…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Fortezza (Fortitude) 1470 Tempera on panel, 167 x 87 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Fortitude is portrayed as a young woman wearing armour over her graceful dress and holding a ruler’s sceptre. In spite of the military attributes, the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pallade e il Centauro (Pallas and the Centaur) c.1482 Tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Like Botticelli’s other paintings with a mythological subject, this work too, showing the young woman armed with a battle…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Esmeralda Brandini (Portrait of a Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli) c.1470–1480 Tempera on panel, 65.7 x 41 cm Victoria & Albert Museum, London Sandro Botticelli (1444/5-1510) was trained in Florence in the studio of Fra Filippo Lippi…
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…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 74.5 x 54.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna che adora il Bambino (The Virgin Adoring the Child) c.1480–1490 Tempera on panel, diam. 58.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman kneels, angled to our left, and tips her face down toward a naked baby propped…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1475–1480 Oil on poplar, 55.4 x 43 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the past, this portrait was considered to be that of Simonetta Vespucci, venerated by Giuliano de’ Medici, who died…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Venere e Marte (Venus and Mars) c.1485 Tempera and oil on poplar, 69.2 x 173.4 cm National Gallery, London Venus, the goddess of love, looks over at her lover Mars. She is alert and dignified, while he – the…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (Calvary) 1475 Oil on panel, 52.5 x 42.5 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp The dead Christ hangs from the Cross on Golgotha, also known as Mount Calvary. The Virgin Mary is mourning at his…