Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Madonna of Humility) 1423–1424 Tempera on panel, 105.6 x 54.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a nude baby boy sits on a blue patterned pillow on the floor in front of a…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Il tributo (The Tribute Money) c.1425 Fresco, 255 x 598 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze
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) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) 1426 Egg tempera on wood, 134.8 x 73.5 cm National Gallery, London This was once the central panel of an altarpiece, probably a polyptych, made by Masaccio for the Carmelite church of Santa…
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…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Juan Evangelista y San Francesco de Asís (St John the Evangelist and St Francis of Assisi) 1600 Oil on canvas, 110 x 86.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Ritratto di Lorenzo il Magnifico (Portrait of Lorenzo il Magnifico) c.1533–1534 Oil on panel, 90 x 72 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Lorenzo I de’ Medici (1449-1492)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ercole coronato dalle Muse (Hercules crowned by the Muses) 1568 Oil on copper, 40 x 29.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)