Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Crocifissione mistica (Mystic Crucifixion) c.1500 Tempera and oil on canvas (transferred from panel), 72.4 x 51.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the 1490s, Florence came under the sway of the magnetic Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The century had…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 74.5 x 54.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna che adora il Bambino (The Virgin Adoring the Child) c.1480–1490 Tempera on panel, diam. 58.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman kneels, angled to our left, and tips her face down toward a naked baby propped…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1498–1505 Tempera on canvas (transferred from panel), 44.5 x 26 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Botticelli’s work originally consisted of four parts: the two central ones carrying an Annunciation scene and the side wings with…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del Libro (Madonna of the Book) 1480–1481 Tempera on panel, 58 x 39.6 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano This painting depicts the Virgin and Child reading a book that is only partially visible. The layout and decoration of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on wood, 67.3 x 150.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The picture dates about 1500 and is painted in the harsh style Botticelli evolved during…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione di Cestello (Cestello Annunciation) 1489–1490 Tempera on wood, 150 x 156 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Inscriptions: SPIRITUS SANCTUS SUPERVENIET IN TE ET VIRTUS ALTISSIMI OBUMBRABIT TIBI (Luca 1, 35) ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MICHI SECUNDUM VERBUM TUUM…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1492 Tempera on panel, 17.8 × 26.8 cm The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Punizione dei ribelli (Punishment of the Rebels) 1480–1482 Fresco, 348.5 x 570 cm Cappella Sistina, Vaticano