Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Ritratto di donna con un uomo al davanzale (Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement) c.1440 Tempera on wood, 64.1 x 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Italian painting, this is the earliest…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) San Lorenzo in trono con santi e donatori (Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors) c.1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 121.3 x 115.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Saint Lawrence is shown enthroned, with his feet…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1478–1480 Tempera on wood, 42 x 126 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The painting shows the death of Roman heroine, Lucretia, faithful, modest wife, raped by the king of the last…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Youth) c.1485 Oil and tempera on panel, 52.1 x 36.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first…
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…
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…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Battaglia di San Romano (The Battle of San Romano) c.1438–1440 Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar, 182 × 320 cm National Gallery, London It’s hard to follow what’s going on in this large and busy…