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Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (c.1547-1550)

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1547–1550 Oil on canvas, 57.8 × 91.4 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina 1547–1548 Hermitage Museum, Saint…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1290-1300)

Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1290–1300 Tempera and gold on wood, 27.9 x 21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures…

San Paolo (c.1330)

Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) San Paolo (Saint Paul) c.1330 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 95.9 x 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, Paul became known as the apostle to the Gentiles. He…

Madonna della Scala (1522)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna della Scala (The Virgin and Child between Saint Matthew and an Angel) 1522 Oil on panel, 177 x 135 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child, flanked on the right by an…

Madonna delle Arpie (1517)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna delle Arpie (Madonna and Child between St Francis of Assisi and St John the Evangelist) 1517 Oil on panel, 207 × 178 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

San Giovanni Battista (c.1523)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1523 Oil on panel, 94 × 68 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze By choosing to depict the sculpted figure of a young Saint John the Baptist standing out against a…

Ritratto d’uomo (1528-1529)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1528–1529 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 66.7 x 50.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is probably the “natural seeming and very beautiful” portrait of a canon from Pisa…