Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Kings) c.1470–1475 Tempera on poplar, diameter 130.8 cm National Gallery, London Botticelli painted at least six scenes of the Adoration of the Kings. This, one of his most expansive and ambitious, is painted…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) & Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Kings) c.1470 Tempera on wood, 50.2 x 135.9 cm National Gallery, London Images showing the Adoration of the Kings were particularly important in Florence, where the citizens celebrated Epiphany…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard Héloise, Argenteuil 1872 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux courses en province (At the Races in the Countryside) 1869 Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 55.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston At once merging and disrupting the traditional categories of landscape, genre scene, and family portrait,…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Spasimo di Sicilia, Andata al Calvario (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary) 1515–1516 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 318 x 229 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: Jacopo Basilio commissioned this painting for the Monastery…
Raffaello (1483-1520) L’Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Magi) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 39 x 190 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano This painting is the central part of the predella of the Oddi Altarpiece. The Crowning of the Virgin…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio uccide il drago, disegno (Drawing for St George and the Dragon) c.1506 Pen and ink over black chalk, 26.3 x 21.3 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago c.1506 National…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar, 29.4 x 25.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…