Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, third episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 83.5 x 142.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, first episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.3 x 139 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di Lorenzo de’ Lorenzi (Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Lorenzi) c.1492 Oil on panel, 50.8 x 36.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia See also: • Lorenzi, Lorenzo de’ (c.1459-1502)
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e angelo (Madonna and Child with an Angel) c.1465 Tempera on panel, 87 x 60 cm Spedale degli Innocenti, Firenze An early work by Sandro Botticelli, it is inspired by the famous Madonna with child…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Venere e Marte (Venus and Mars) c.1485 Tempera and oil on poplar, 69.2 x 173.4 cm National Gallery, London Venus, the goddess of love, looks over at her lover Mars. She is alert and dignified, while he – the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Primavera (Allegory of Spring) c.1480 Tempera on panel, 207 x 319 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This painting, usually known as the Primavera [or ‘Spring’] shows nine figures from classic mythology advancing over a flowery lawn in a grove…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1478 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 171 x 85.5 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Antonello da Messina set the martyrdom of St. Sebastian in Venice, as can be seen from the waterways…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo, Il Condottiere (Portrait of a Man (Giorgio Corner (1454-1527)?), known as The Condottiere) 1475 Oil on poplar, 36.2 x 30 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Inscription: S.D.m.b. on the cartellino: 1475 / Antonellus messaneus me…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) 1478 Oil on walnut panel, 20.4 x 14.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin An inconspicuous note, stuck as if by chance to the parapet in the foreground, states the year in…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1474 Oil on poplar, 34.1 x 27.1 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SIGNATURE / INSCRIPTION: .1474./Antonellus messanus / me pinxit