Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1426 Tempera on panel, 162.3 x 191.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This altarpiece was painted for the monastery of Santo Domenico in Fiesole, near Florence. The central panel shows the Archangel Gabriel’s Annunciation to…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Cristo risorto adorato da santi e angeli (The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels) 1566–1568 Black chalk, pen and brown ink on paper, 41.9 x 26.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This highly finished presentation drawing,…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) & Workshop Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1500s Oil on canvas, 134.5 x 217 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Titian, the celebrated and prolific 16th-century Venetian artist, and his large workshop painted several versions of this…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Studio per Il Martirio di San Sebastiano (Study for “The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany) 1739 Oil on canvas, 51.7 x 31.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1739 a pair…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Visitazione (Visitation) c.1528–1530 Oil on panel, 202 x 156 cm Santi Michele e Francesco, Carmignano
Severini, Gino (1883-1966) Metropolitana di Parigi, ruota panoramica e Torre Eiffel (Paris Subway, Ferris Wheel and Eiffel Tower) c.1912–1913 Pastel and charcoal, 59.6 x 48.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gino Severini joined the Futurist movement, which emphasized the dynamism,…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Angelo musicante (Angel playing the lute) 1521 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 47 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia Medici (Madonna and Child, Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist) c.1529 Oil on panel, 140 × 104 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The scene is built with a diagonal layout of the four figures intent…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence) 1617 Marble, 66 x 108 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Robbia, Luca della (1400-1482) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1460–1470 Glazed terracotta, 111.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland