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…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) San Girolamo nel deserto (Saint Jerome in the Wilderness) c.1480 Oil on panel, 151.7 x 113.7 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
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
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto con San Francesco (Rest on the flight into Egypt with St. Francis) c.1520 Oil on canvas, 120 x 105 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) La Fucina di Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) c.1564 Oil on copper, 38 x 28 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)
Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) 1480–1490 Tempera on panel, 88 x 71 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Madonna col Bambino e quattro angeli (Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels) c.1460–1470 Oil on panel, transferred to fabric on panel, 107.8 x 78.4 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…