Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’unione felice (Four Allegories of Love: Happy Union) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 186.7 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La Bella Nani (Portrait of a Venetian woman) c.1560 Oil on canvas, 119 × 103 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris At the time of its rediscovery at the end of the 19th century, it was thought that this portrait…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna Rucellai (Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by angels) c.1285 Tempera on wood, gold background, 450 x 290 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1290–1300 Tempera and gold on wood, 27.9 x 21 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This lyrical work inaugurates the grand tradition in Italian art of envisioning the sacred figures…
Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) San Paolo (Saint Paul) c.1330 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 95.9 x 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, Paul became known as the apostle to the Gentiles. He…
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) & Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) Annunciazione e i santi Ansano e Massima (Annunciation with St. Ansanus and St. Massima) 1333 Tempera on wood, gold background, 184 x 168 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di gentildonna ispirata a Lucrezia (Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia) c.1530–1533 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 110.6 cm National Gallery, London A sumptuously dressed young woman stands between the back of an armchair and a table.…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Santa Caterina (Saint Catherine) 1522 Oil on panel, 57.2 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up and nearly filling the picture, a young woman with pale skin, dressed in a jewel-toned gown and…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…
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…