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) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1485 Tempera and gold on wood, 19.1 x 31.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1476 Oil on panel, 37.4 x 29.5 cm Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Torino The painted cartouche bears the date and the name of the artist. The man who looks at us with…
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…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1478 Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 171 x 85.5 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Antonello da Messina set the martyrdom of St. Sebastian in Venice, as can be seen from the waterways…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Vergine Annunciata (Virgin Annunciate) c.1473–1474 Oil and tempera on panel, 42.5 x 32.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This panel painting, created for private devotional use, shows the Virgin Mary after being brought the message of the Annunciation.…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Annunciata (Virgin Annunciate) c.1475 Oil on wood panel, 45 x 34.5 cm Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo Compare: Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Vergine Annunziata c.1473–1474 Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) 1474 Oil on poplar, 34.1 x 27.1 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SIGNATURE / INSCRIPTION: .1474./Antonellus messanus / me pinxit
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1475–1476 Oil on poplar, 35.6 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This small painting shows how Antonello revolutionised Venetian portraiture in the late fifteenth century: the three-quarter pose, dark background and…