Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Trasfigurazione (The Transfiguration) c.1307–1311 Egg tempera on wood, 48.5 × 51.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made for the Cathedral of Siena. Christ stands at the…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Guarigione del cieco nato (The Healing of the Man born Blind) c.1307–1311 Egg tempera on wood, 45.1 × 46.7 cm National Gallery, London This painting comes from the back of the predella of the large, double-sided altarpiece made…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1307–1311 Egg tempera on wood, 44.5 × 45.8 cm National Gallery, London This panel was the first in a series of scenes of the infancy of Christ on the front of the predella (lowest part)…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La predicazione di San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist Preaching) 1505 Oil on poplar, 26.2 × 52 cm National Gallery, London This is the only surviving predella scene of Raphael’s Ansidei Altarpiece for the Ansidei chapel in S. Fiorenzo,…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Ansidei (Ansidei Madonna: The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Nicholas of Bari) 1505 Oil on poplar, 216.8 × 147.6 cm National Gallery, London This is the main panel of the Ansidei Altarpiece that the…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) La crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1471 Tempera on wood, 28.5 × 35 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown nailed to the Cross at his crucifixion, flanked by the two thieves who were crucified alongside him. His mother, the Virgin…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) L’Assunzione della Vergine (The Assumption of the Virgin) c.1475–1476 Tempera on wood, 228.6 × 377.2 cm National Gallery, London Heaven and earth are united in this vast, dramatic scene. A dome-shaped vault has opened up in the sky to…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) A Priestess of Apollo 1888 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 29.8 cm Tate Britain, London
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La creazione di Eva (The Creation of Eve) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 81 × 103 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Tarquinio e Lucrezia (Tarquin and Lucretia) 1578–1580 Oil on canvas, 175 × 151.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago According to Roman history, the rape of the virtuous matron Lucretia by Tarquin, son of the king of Rome,…