Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Adoration of the Magi 2nd half of the 16th century Oil on canvas, 36 x 56 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Peter Brueghel the Younger based this painting on a work by his father, the great…
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Christ et la Madeleine (Christ and Magdalene) c.1905 Marble, 102 x 77 x 70 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection Christ and the Magdalen is the only known work by Rodin on a religious subject. Various…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1596 Oil on copper, 26.6 x 35 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Jan Brueghel belonged to a dynasty of painters whose first outstanding member was Pieter Bruegel, Jan’s…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1540 Oil on panel, 37.5 x 31 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on loan at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Prior to 1874 this Virgin and Child was in the Sciarra-Colonna…
Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) 15th century Relief, polychrome gesso, 64 x 55 x 19.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi 1861 Oil on 3 canvases, 133.6 x 98.4 x 8.5 cm / 133.9 x 181.9 x 8 cm / 133.3 x 98.4 x 8 cm Tate Britain, London This triptych…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Madonna di Manchester (Manchester Madonna: The Virgin and Child with Saint John and Angels) c.1494 Tempera on wood, 104.5 × 77 cm National Gallery, London This picture – known as ‘The Manchester Madonna’ since 1857, when it was exhibited in the…
Lorenzo di Credi (c.1459-1537) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1480–1485 Oil on wood, 71.1 × 49.5 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary is seated directly in front of us. Together with swathes of drapery, she covers almost the…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Cristo morto sostenuto da due angeli (The Dead Christ supported by Two Angels) c.1465–1470 Oil on wood, 95 × 71.7 cm National Gallery, London This type of image of Christ after his death – close up, showing his…
El Greco (1541-1614) Aparición de la Virgen y el Niño a San Jacinto (Apparition of the Virgin and Child to Saint Hyacinth) c.1605–1610 Oil on canvas, 158.4 x 98.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Hyacinth, a Polish Dominican priest born in 1185,…