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…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Composizione metafisica (Metaphysical Composition) 1950–1960 Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Autoritratto in aspetto di Medusa (Self-portrait as Medusa) post 1474 Pen, brush, ink on paper, 124 x 99 mm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze In the late 18th century, this work was recorded as “Mask in pen” in the…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) San Michele Arcangelo (Saint Michael the Archangel) completed 1469 Oil on poplar, 133 x 59.5 cm National Gallery, London The Archangel Michael led an army of angels to battle against the devil and cast him down from…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1475–1478 Terracotta, 61 x 66 x 28.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Verrocchio, a favorite artist of the Medici, may have created this lively and commanding portrait on the occasion of a joust…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) David c.1466–1469 Partially gilded bronze, 125 cm Museo del Bargello, Firenze See also: • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Decollazione del Battista e Banchetto di Erode (Beheading of the Baptist and Herod’s Banquet) c.1427–1428 Tempera on poplar, 19.5 x 22 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Étude pour Phidias dans L’Apothéose d’Homère (Study for Phidias in the Apotheosis of Homer) 1827 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 32.39 cm x 35.56 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Tête de la Grande Odalisque (Head of the Grande Odalisque) 19th Century Oil on canvas, diameter 44 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cambrai Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La grande odalisque 1814 Musée du Louvre, Paris…
