Tag: Jesus

Madonna col Bambino (c.1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1490 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 55.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Botticelli oversaw an active workshop that produced multiple versions of the same composition. The central figures in this painting are…

Ia Orana Maria (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…

Adorazione dei Magi (16th century)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 16th century Oil on canvas, 141 cm x 219 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi 1500s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi c.1557–1560…

Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (1515-1518)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (Virgin and Child with St. Dorothy and St. George) c.1515–1518 Oil on panel, 86 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The authorship, dating and iconography of this work are all controversial. It…

Cristo in pietà (c.1480-1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Cristo in pietà (Christ in the Sepulchre) c.1480–1482 Oil on panel, 21 x 41 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Predella of the Altarpiece of St. Barnabas. Altarpiece of St. Barnabas: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba c.1480–1482 Galleria degli…

Pala di San Barnaba (c.1480-1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba (Altarpiece of St. Barnabas) c.1480–1482 Tempera on panel, 268 x 280 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Central Panel: Virgin and Child with Four Angels and Six Saints: Catherine, Augustine, Barnabas, John the Baptist, Ignatius and…

Pala di Sant’Ambrogio (c.1470)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di Sant’Ambrogio (Madonna and Child with Six Saints) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 170 x 194 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Altarpiece of Sant’Ambrogio, depicting the Madonna with Child and Saints, painted around 1470, when the artist was…