Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La Bella Nani (Portrait of a Venetian woman) c.1560 Oil on canvas, 119 × 103 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris At the time of its rediscovery at the end of the 19th century, it was thought that this portrait…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1523 Oil on panel, 94 × 68 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze By choosing to depict the sculpted figure of a young Saint John the Baptist standing out against a…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1528–1529 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is probably the “natural seeming and very beautiful” portrait of a canon from Pisa…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Ritratto di fanciullo (Portrait of a Boy) c.1623–1625 Oil on canvas, 33 x 28 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This painting came from the collection of Prince Chigi. It was purchased by the Italian state in 1919 to be…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna con Bambino tra i Santi Ignazio di Antiochia e Onofrio (Madonna and Child between Saints Ignatius of Antioch and Onuphrius) 1508 Oil on panel, 53 x 67 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma This signed and dated painting in its…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Nicola da Tolentino (Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino) c.1522 Oil on canvas, 94.3 x 77.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The vibrant colors and…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di gentildonna ispirata a Lucrezia (Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia) c.1530–1533 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 110.6 cm National Gallery, London A sumptuously dressed young woman stands between the back of an armchair and a table.…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…