Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Noli me tangere c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 19.7 x 44 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite. Pala delle Convertite: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite c.1491–1494 Courtauld Institute of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Festa in casa di Simone (The Feast in the House of Simon) c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 19.8 x 43.77 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite. Pala delle Convertite:…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Maddalena che ascolta la predica di Cristo (Saint Mary Magdalene Listening to Christ Preach) c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 20 x 43.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite.…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala delle Convertite (The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist) c.1491–1494 Tempera on panel, 215 x 192 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London The Trinity with Saints is one of the most important paintings by Botticelli…
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) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1490–1495 Tempera on poplar panel, 140 x 209.2 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Botticelli created this depiction of a Pieta for meditation on the Passion, surrounded by female mourners and saints…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) c.1495–1500 Tempera on wood, 106 x 71 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano The painting, one of the most dramatic realizations of Sandro Botticelli‘s late activity, depicts the moment in which…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Pala di San Cassiano (San Cassiano Altarpiece) 1475–1476 Oil on poplar panel Center table: Madonna and Child, 115 × 63 cm Left panel: Saint Nicholas of Bari and Saint Magdalene (?), 55.5 × 35 cm Right…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Crocifissione (The Crucifixion) 1455 Oil on wood, 39 x 23.25 cm Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Maddalena penitente (Repentant Mary Magdalene) 1808–1809 Marble, h. 95 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Canova, an outstanding sculptor of the late 18th – early 19th century, the head of the school of Neoclassicism in Rome, did not often…