Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Kings) c.1480 Oil with some egg tempera on wood, 57.5 x 85.7 cm National Gallery, London A ruinous chapel-like building stands in a rocky landscape. The Virgin Mary sits on the…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Santi Gregorio Magno e Mattia (Saint Gregory? and Saint Matthias) c.1428–1429 Tempera grassa and oil on poplar, transferred to fibreboard, 126.3 x 59.1 cm National Gallery, London Saint Matthias is shown holding the axe that was used…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) L’Arcangelo Gabriele (The Archangel Gabriel) c.1430 Tempera on poplar panel, 76.6 × 57.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, a winged angel with blond hair and pale skin faces our right in profile…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) La Vergine Annunciata (The Virgin Annunciate) c.1430 Tempera on panel, 76 × 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: lower left on the Virgin’s book: Ecce Virgo [con]cipiet [et] p / pariet fili[u]m / et uocabit /…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Crocefissione (Crucifixion) 1426 Tempera on wood, 83 x 63.5 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Masaccio (1401-1428) Cacciata di Adamo ed Eva dal paradiso terrestre (Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Earthly Paradise) c.1424–1428 (altered in 1680, and restored in 1980) Fresco, 214 x 90 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze In 1680 Cosimo III de’ Medici,…
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…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Ritratto di Lorenzo il Magnifico (Portrait of Lorenzo il Magnifico) c.1533–1534 Oil on panel, 90 x 72 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Lorenzo I de’ Medici (1449-1492)