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) San Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) completed 1469 Oil on poplar, 133 x 59.5 cm National Gallery, London The Archangel Michael led an army of angels to battle against the devil and cast him down from…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1460 Mixed media on paper glued on board, 40.5 x 27 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The figure is identified as Saint Jerome by his aged appearance, his face weathered and torso semi-nude…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1477–1478 Tempera on wood, 54.6 x 44.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The identity of the sitter of this portrait is unknown. It is an early work by Ghirlandaio, and…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (Portrait of an Old Man with his Grandson) 1490 Tempera on poplar wood, 62.7 x 46.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It has sometimes been proposed to identify the old man with a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Isabella d’Este, marchesa di Mantova (Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua) c.1534–1536 Oil on canvas, 102.4 × 64.7 × 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Isabella d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara and Modena, married Francesco I Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1493 Oil on poplar wood, 186 × 172 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Mary with Child and St. Peter, John the Evangelist (?), John the Baptist and Paul. Signature: On the…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent St. Jerome) c.1502 Oil on olive wood, 29.7 × 22.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Attributed to Perugino (c.1446-1523) Perugino was one of the first Central Italian painters to experiment with complicated oil glazes. Inspired by the…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e due sante (Madonna and Child with Two Saints) c.1493–1495 Oil on poplar wood, 86.5 × 63 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna “PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT” reads the signature placed bottom left in this half-length composition. Perugino‘s handling of…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1500 Oil on poplar panel, 70.2 x 50 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Seen from the lap up, a woman wearing a marine-blue robe over a crimson-red dress holds a nude baby…