Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Raphael painted this…
Raffaello (1483-1520) L’orazione nell’Orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1504 Oil on wood, 24.1 x 28.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). This panel was…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Belle Jardinière (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) c.1507–1508 Oil on panel, 122 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna della Scala (Madonna of the Stairs) c.1490 Marble bas-relief, 56.7 x 40.1 cm Casa Buonarroti, Firenze The Madonna della scala, or Madonna of the Stairs, of which no mention was made during Michelangelo’s lifetime, was cited for the…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La fragua de Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) 1630 Oil on canvas, 223 x 290 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A figure suddenly appears on the left in a forge where various blacksmiths are working, dressed in…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) San Francisco de Borja y el moribundo impenitente (St Francis Borja at the Deathbed of an Impenitent) 1788 Oil on canvas, 350 x 300 cm Catedral de Valencia, Valencia See also: • Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Apparizione di Gesù alla Maddalena (Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene) 1581 Oil on canvas, 80 x 65.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze