Pontormo (1494-1557) Desco da parto: Nascita di San Giovanni Battista (Birthing-tray: Birth of St John the Baptist) 1526–1527 Oil on panel, 89 x 74 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The birthing tray was a ceremonial object typically used in Tuscany in the…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Cena in Emmaus (Supper at Emmaus) 1525 Oil on canvas, 230 x 173 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna in trono col Bambino e quattro santi (Enthroned Madonna and Child with four saints) 1518 Oil on panel, 172 x 141 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Desert) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 28.4 x 31.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington One of Domenico Veneziano‘s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 27.5 x 30.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a landscape with chiseled, rocky mountains beyond a grassy meadow and stream, two…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 83 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress,…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) La Vergine e il Bambino in trono (The Virgin and Child Enthroned) c.1440–1444 Fresco, transferred to canvas, 241 x 120.5 cm National Gallery, London This is the central part of a fresco which was once flanked by two standing…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Testa di santo con tonsura e barba (Head of a Tonsured, Bearded Saint) c.1440–1444 Fresco, transferred to tile, 45 x 35.5 cm National Gallery, London This is a fragment of a fresco of an image of a standing saint.…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Testa di santo con tonsura senza barba (Head of a Tonsured, Beardless Saint) c.1440–1444 Fresco, transferred to tile, 43 x 35.5 cm National Gallery, London This is a fragment of a fresco of a full-length standing figure of a…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1701 Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 48.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1692 Giordano was summoned to Spain as court painter to King Charles II. Charles was succeeded in…