Tag: landscape

Tre miracoli di San Zanobi (c.1500)

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…

Annunciazione di Cestello (1489-1490)

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…

Annunciazione (c.1492)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1492 Tempera on panel, 17.8 × 26.8 cm The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls

Nastagio degli Onesti II (1483)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, second episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.5 x 138.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is the story…

Nastagio degli Onesti I (1483)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Nastagio degli Onesti, first episode 1483 Mixed method on panel, 82.3 x 139 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid These panels illustrate the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, the eighth novel of the fifth day of Boccaccio‘s Decameron. This is…

Adorazione dei Magi (1478-1482)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1478–1482 Tempera and oil on panel, 68 x 102 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to…

San Gerolamo nello studio (c.1475)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Gerolamo nello studio (Saint Jerome in his Study) c.1475 Oil on lime, 45.7 x 36.2 cm National Gallery, London Born in the fourth century, Saint Jerome was a scholar and a monk. His translation of the…

Ritratto di giovane (1478)

Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) 1478 Oil on walnut panel, 20.4 x 14.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin An inconspicuous note, stuck as if by chance to the parapet in the foreground, states the year in…