Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1470 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 74.2 cm National Gallery, London Saint George and the dragon must be one of the most fantastic saints’ legends to come down to…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Caccia notturna (The Hunt in the Forest) c.1465–1470 Tempera and oil, with traces of gold, on panel, 73.3 x 177 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (Portrait of an Old Man with his Grandson) 1490 Tempera on poplar wood, 62.7 x 46.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It has sometimes been proposed to identify the old man with a…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (The Virgin and Child with an Angel) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 114 x 63.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the central panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Noli Me Tangere 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his contact…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Cristo e la donna di Samaria (Christ and the Woman of Samaria) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region…
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) La resurrezione (The Resurrection) 1500–1505 Tempera on wood, 27 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This exceptionally well-preserved picture and four others in the Art Institute of Chicago formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece—possibly the large…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent St. Jerome) c.1502 Oil on olive wood, 29.7 × 22.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Attributed to Perugino (c.1446-1523) Perugino was one of the first Central Italian painters to experiment with complicated oil glazes. Inspired by the…
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…