Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1556–1561 Oil on canvas, 235 x 125 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was made for the altar of Santa Maria Nuova, in Venice, around the mid-1550s; it arrived in Brera…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Ritrovamento del corpo di San Marco (Finding of the Body of Saint Mark) 1562–1566 Oil on canvas, 396 x 400 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice,…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin) 1504 Oil on panel, 170 x 118 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, dating from 1504, was moved from the Church of San Francesco in Città di Castello to…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Madonna dei Cherubini, Madonna con il Bambino e un coro di cherubini (Madonna of Cherubs, Madonna and Child with a Choir of Cherubs) c.1485 Tempera on panel, 88 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel,…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) c.1483 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna Greca (The Greek Madonna) c.1460–1465 Oil on panel, 84 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The so-called ‘Greek Madonna’ by Giovanni Bellini takes its nickname from the Greek μήτηρ Θεού, seen at the top of…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Baccanale: un fauno preso in giro da bambini (Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children) c.1616–1617 Marble, 132.4 x 73.7 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The complex composition of intertwined figures, skillfully carved…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (Madonna and Child Blessing) c.1455 Tempera on wood, 82 x 55 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Different ideas have been put forward regarding the original provenance of the panel, which, in the…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Sant’Antonio Abate e San Bernardino da Siena (Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Bernardino of Siena) 1459 Tempera on poplar panel, 110 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington