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…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Estasi di Santa Cecilia (Ecstasy of St. Cecilia) c.1513 Oil transferred from panel to canvas, 236 x 149 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna Performed around 1513 for the chapel of Blessed Elena Duglioli, who had built her own image of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Spasimo di Sicilia, Andata al Calvario (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary) 1515–1516 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 318 x 229 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: Jacopo Basilio commissioned this painting for the Monastery…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Resurrezione di Cristo (Resurrection of Christ) 1499–1502 Oil on wood panel, 56.5 x 47 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Ever since he began his training in the workshop of Pietro Perugino (1446–1524), Raphael Sanzio circulated in the court…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Noli me Tangere 1526–1528 Oil on oak panel, 76.7 x 95.8 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London When the diarist John Evelyn saw this painting in Charles II’s Private Lodgings at Whitehall in 1680 he recorded…
Fontana, Lavinia (1552-1614) Apparizione di Gesù alla Maddalena (Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene) 1581 Oil on canvas, 80 x 65.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze