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San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (c.1445-1450)

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…

San Francesco riceve le stimmate (c.1445-1450)

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…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1445-1450)

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,…

La Vergine e il Bambino in trono (c.1440-1444)

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…

Testa di santo con tonsura e barba (c.1440-1444)

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.…

Testa di santo con tonsura senza barba (c.1440-1444)

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…

La fuga in Egitto (1701)

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…

Annunciazione (1672)

Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) 1672 Oil on canvas, 236.5 x 169.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Giordano was the leading painter in Naples in the late seventeenth century and one of the most sought-after Italian artists of…