Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Uomo su una scala (Man on a Ladder) 1504–1505 Oil on wood, 88.3 × 52 cm National Gallery, London This fragment of a larger painting shows an elderly man, almost bald but for a few tufts of white…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Ritratto di donna con un uomo al davanzale (Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement) c.1440 Tempera on wood, 64.1 x 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Italian painting, this is the earliest…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Youth) c.1485 Oil and tempera on panel, 52.1 x 36.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) La Fucina di Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) c.1564 Oil on copper, 38 x 28 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Ercole coronato dalle Muse (Hercules crowned by the Muses) 1568 Oil on copper, 40 x 29.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1475–1478 Terracotta, 61 x 66 x 28.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Verrocchio, a favorite artist of the Medici, may have created this lively and commanding portrait on the occasion of a joust…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1460 Mixed media on paper glued on board, 40.5 x 27 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto d’uomo (Portrait of a Man) c.1477–1478 Tempera on wood, 54.6 x 44.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The identity of the sitter of this portrait is unknown. It is an early work by Ghirlandaio, and…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (Portrait of an Old Man with his Grandson) 1490 Tempera on poplar wood, 62.7 x 46.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It has sometimes been proposed to identify the old man with a…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) Étude pour Phidias dans L’Apothéose d’Homère (Study for Phidias in the Apotheosis of Homer) 1827 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 32.39 cm x 35.56 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste…