Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Kings) c.1480 Oil with some egg tempera on wood, 57.5 x 85.7 cm National Gallery, London A ruinous chapel-like building stands in a rocky landscape. The Virgin Mary sits on the…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Crocefissione (Crucifixion) 1426 Tempera on wood, 83 x 63.5 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Noli Me Tangere 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his contact…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) 1495 Oil on wood, 220 x 195 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Inscription: PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT A.D. MCCCCLXXXXV The body of Christ taken down from the cross is lying over…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Santa Maria Maddalena (Saint Mary Magdalene) c.1482–1485 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 95 x 30.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino after the city in which he often lived, collaborated with other celebrated painters in one of…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Trittico Galitzin (The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene) c.1482–1485 Oil on panel transferred to canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino after the city in which he often lived, collaborated with…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1434–1435 Tempera on poplar, 209 x 206 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The miter-shaped cutout of the painted surface at the top is original. Main register of an altarpiece from which elements…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1420–1423 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 63.8 x 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by Fra Angelico accentuates the drama of the Crucifixion by showing the Virgin collapsed in grief with…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) c.1440 Tempera transferred to canvas, laid down on wood, gold ground, 34 x 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York To the left of the Crucifixion are shown Saints Monica, her son Augustine, and Peter…
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Santa Maria Maddalena (St. Mary Magdalene) c.1620 Oil on canvas, 146.5 x 108 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Mary Magdalen was a much-loved subject both by painters and the public because she represented the ideal model of the…