Tag: inscription

San Paolo (c.1330)

Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) San Paolo (Saint Paul) c.1330 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 95.9 x 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, Paul became known as the apostle to the Gentiles. He…

Carità (1518-1519)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Carità (Charity) 1518–1519 Oil on canvas, 185 x 137 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for Francis I during Andrea del Sarto‘s stay in France (1518-1519).Coll. Francis I. (Louvre) See also: • François I, King of France (1494-1547)

Madonna delle Arpie (1517)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna delle Arpie (Madonna and Child between St Francis of Assisi and St John the Evangelist) 1517 Oil on panel, 207 × 178 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze

San Giovanni Battista (c.1523)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1523 Oil on panel, 94 × 68 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze By choosing to depict the sculpted figure of a young Saint John the Baptist standing out against a…

Susanna e i vecchioni (1517)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1517 Oil on panel, 66 x 50 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The painting is signed in the bottom left, LOTUS PICTOR 1517, dating it to the artist’s first sojourn in…

Santa Caterina (1522)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Santa Caterina (Saint Catherine) 1522 Oil on panel, 57.2 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up and nearly filling the picture, a young woman with pale skin, dressed in a jewel-toned gown and…