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…
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1310–1315 Tempera on poplar panel, 85.4 × 61.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman with pale skin holds a baby in the crook of her left arm, on our right, against…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Étude pour Phidias dans L’Apothéose d’Homère (Study for Phidias in the Apotheosis of Homer) 1827 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 32.39 cm x 35.56 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…