Perugino (c.1446-1523) Il battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond,…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Battesimo di Cristo (Baptism of Christ) c.1498–1500 Oil on olive wood, 30 × 23 x 2.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Perugino used his successful inventions again and again. This baptism goes back to his fresco in the Sistine Chapel. More…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) 1495 Oil on wood, 220 x 195 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Inscription: PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT A.D. MCCCCLXXXXV The body of Christ taken down from the cross is lying over…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Crocifissione (Crucifixion) c.1482–1485 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 101.5 x 56.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino after the city in which he often lived, collaborated with other celebrated painters in one of the most…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Consegna delle chiavi (The Delivery of the Keys) 1481–1482 Fresco, 335 × 550 cm Cappella Sistina, Vaticano
Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Salomone e la Regina di Saba (Solomon and the Queen of Sheba) 1425–1452 Gilt bronze Battistero di San Giovanni, Firenze This is the tenth panel of the Gates of Paradise, with the story of Solomon and the Queen of…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1434–1435 Tempera on poplar, 209 x 206 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The miter-shaped cutout of the painted surface at the top is original. Main register of an altarpiece from which elements…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Tebaide (Thebaid) c.1420 Tempera on panel, 75 x 207 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Cimabue (1240-1302) Cristo deriso (Christ Mocked) c.1280 Tempera and gold on poplar, 25.8 × 20.3 cm Private collection
Giotto (c.1267-1337) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1320 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 45.1 x 43.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture—at once austere and tender—belongs to a series of seven showing the life of…