El Greco (1541-1614) Cristo expulsando a los mercaderes del templo (Christ driving the Traders from the Temple) c.1600 Oil on canvas, 106.3 × 129.7 cm National Gallery, London El Greco has used theatrical gestures and intense colours to express the chaos and…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) L’Assunzione della Vergine (The Assumption of the Virgin) c.1475–1476 Tempera on wood, 228.6 × 377.2 cm National Gallery, London Heaven and earth are united in this vast, dramatic scene. A dome-shaped vault has opened up in the sky to…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Eve c.1533–1537 Oil on panel, 107.5 × 36.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago For most of his long career, Lucas Cranach the Elder was court painter to the Elector of Saxony. Although the general placement of…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) La discesa di Cristo nel Limbo (The Descent of Christ into Limbo) c.1475–1480 Oil on vellum on panel, 51.8 x 37.3 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Temptation in the Garden of Eden c.1600 Oil on oak panel, 84 × 71.3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Compare: Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Garden of Eden c.1610–1612 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Masaccio (1401-1428) Cacciata di Adamo ed Eva dal paradiso terrestre (Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Earthly Paradise) c.1424–1428 (altered in 1680, and restored in 1980) Fresco, 214 x 90 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze In 1680 Cosimo III de’ Medici,…
Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Adamo ed Eva (Adam and Eve) 1425–1452 Gilt bronze Battistero di San Giovanni, Firenze This is the first panel of the Gates of Paradise, with the story of Adam and Eve. See also: Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Porta del Paradiso 1425–1452…