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
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1475–1476 Oil on poplar, 35.6 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting shows how Antonello revolutionised Venetian portraiture in the late fifteenth century: the three-quarter pose, dark background and…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1472–1476 Oil on panel, 27.5 x 21 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Antonello da Messina, who according to Vasari learned the technique of oil painting directly from Van Eyck during a trip…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1475–1480 Tempera and oil on panel, 33 x 24.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Attributed to Antonello da Messina. Shown from the chest up, a clean shaven, young…