Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Caterina e Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and John the Baptist) c.1496–1500 Oil on panel, 50 x 81 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Gesù che porta la croce (Carrying of the Cross) c.1565 Oil on canvas, 67 x 77 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Renaissance painting abounds with representations of Christ bearing the cross on the road to Calvary, either as an isolated…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1536 Oil on canvas, 96 x 75 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In his portraits, Titian, one of the best portrait painters in Europe, took a radically different approach to male…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio (Venus with a Mirror) c.1555 Oil on canvas, 116.5 x 101 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Venere allo specchio c.1555 National Gallery of Art, Washington
Pontormo (1494-1557) Ritratto di Cosimo il Vecchio (Portrait of Cosimo the Elder) 1519–1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 67 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Cosimo il Vecchio (1389-1464)
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Ritratto di giovane con una lettera (Portrait of a Young Man holding a Letter) 1518 Oil on wood, 85.5 x 66.5 cm National Gallery, London A young man glances up at us from the letter he has just been…