Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Caterina, Elisabetta e Giovanni Battista (The Virgin and Child with St Catherine, St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist) 1513 Oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1601–1602 Oil on canvas, 180 x 136 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma While in the past this Lamentation over the Dead Christ was ascribed to Antoon Van Dyck, today critics agree that it…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Nicola da Tolentino (Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino) c.1522 Oil on canvas, 94.3 x 77.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The vibrant colors and…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Natività (The Nativity) 1523 Oil on panel, 46 x 35.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman and an older man kneel to either side of a nude baby outside of a barn-like structure in this vertical…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1505–1507 Oil and gold on wood, 51.4 x 47.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The artist gave this painting to his daughter as a gift in 1507, possibly to celebrate the…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Assunzione della Vergine con i Santi Michele e Benedetto (The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict) c.1493–1496 Oil and gold on wood, 170.8 x 131.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This altarpiece combines…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La Sacra Famiglia (The Holy Family) c.1487–1488 Oil on panel, diameter 124 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Compare: Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La Sacra Famiglia c.1490–1495 National Gallery, London
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) La Sacra Famiglia (The Holy Family) c.1490–1495 Oil on wood, 80.6 x 64.8 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds her clothing out the way as Christ leans towards her to breastfeed, and Saint Joseph dotes upon him.…