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.…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La Sacra Famiglia (The Holy Family) c.1490–1495 Oil on wood, 80.6 x 64.8 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds her clothing out the way as Christ leans towards her to breastfeed, and Saint Joseph dotes upon him.…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Madonna col Bambino e storie della vita di sant’Anna (Madonna with the Child and Scenes from the Life of St Anne) c.1452–1453 Tempera on panel, diameter 135 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This painting, one of the most original…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with Saint John) c.1480 Tempera on poplar, 59.1 x 43.8 cm National Gallery, London At the centre of this painting is the Virgin Mary, who covers almost its entire…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Youth) c.1485 Oil and tempera on panel, 52.1 x 36.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Angelo adorante (An Angel Adoring) c.1495 Tempera on wood, 55.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting is a damaged fragment of a larger composition by the Florentine painter Filippino Lippi. The original appearance of the complete picture…
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,…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista (Saints Jerome and John the Baptist) c.1428–1429 Egg tempera on poplar, 125 x 58.9 cm National Gallery, London Saint Jerome, wearing his red cardinal’s hat, and Saint John the Baptist stand side by side…
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…