Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Madonna col Bambino in trono (Madonna and Child Enthroned) c.1420 Tempera on poplar panel, 95.7 x 56.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman, holding a baby in her lap, sits on a wide bench…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) La vocazione degli apostoli Pietro e Andrea (The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew) 1308–1311 Tempera on panel, 42.7 × 45.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier)…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Natività con i profeti Isaia ed Ezechiele (The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel) 1308–1311 Tempera on single poplar panel, 48 × 86.8 × 7.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of…
Carriera, Rosalba (1675-1757) Allegoria della pittura (Allegory of Painting) 1730s Pastel and red chalk on blue laid paper mounted on canvas, 44.3 × 34.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a young woman with pale, smooth skin…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio fluviale (River Landscape) c.1590 Oil on canvas, 88.3 x 148.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere adornata dalle Grazie (Venus Adorned by the Graces) c.1590–1595 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 133 x 170.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the left half of this horizontal painting, a bare-chested, seated woman, Venus, is…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1505–1510 Oil on poplar panel, 84.8 x 68.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Madonna che legge (The Virgin Reading) c.1505 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 78 x 51 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Carpaccio reimagined the Madonna and Child theme when he made this painting. Instead of wearing a traditional…
Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) c.1515 Oil on panel, 72 x 111 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph, Mary, and her newborn son, Jesus, have fled Bethlehem and are on the road to Egypt. They…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (The Abduction of Helen of Troy) c.1685–1690 Oil on canvas, 227 x 193.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford