Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Saliera (Salt Cellar) 1540–1543 Gold, enamel, ebony, ivory, 28.5 × 21.5 × 26.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The only extant work in gold by this Florentine artist already famous during his lifetime, Cellini’s masterpiece is far more than a…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Madonna col Bambino, San Giuseppe e San Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with St Joseph and St John the Baptist) Early 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 120 x 98.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Among the celebrated…
(1500–1571) The artist’s works: Saliera 1540–1543 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna La nymphe de Fontainebleau 1542–1543 Musée du Louvre, Paris Perseo con la testa di Medusa 1545–1554 Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Bindo Altoviti 1549 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Works: • Autobiography (English) • The treatises…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Cristo in casa di Simone il fariseo (Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee) 1544 Pen, ink, chalk and brush on paper, 55.6 x 41.4 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This detailed drawing on blue paper is a study…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna col Bambino e cherubini (Madonna and Child with Cherubs) 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 111 x 75.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Florentine Mannerist Rosso Fiorentino developed at an early age an extravagant, experimental…
(1563–1639) Orazio Lomi Gentileschi The artist’s works: Cristo che porta la croce c.1605–1607 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna San Francesco sorretto dall’angelo c.1607 Museo del Prado, Madrid Riposo nella fuga in Egitto c.1620 National Gallery, London Danae e la pioggia d’oro 1621–1623 Getty Center, Los Angeles…
(1494–1557) Jacopo Carucci known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo, or simply Pontormo The artist’s works: Giuseppe venduto a Putifarre c.1515 National Gallery, London I fratelli di Giuseppe chiedono aiuto c.1515 National Gallery, London Supplizio del fornaio c.1515 National Gallery, London Ritratto di…
(1495–1540) Giovanni Battista di Jacopo known as Rosso Fiorentino, or Il Rosso The artist’s works: Madonna in trono col Bambino e quattro santi 1518 Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Ritratto di giovane con una lettera 1518 National Gallery, London Madonna col Bambino e…
(1528–1588) Paolo Caliari, called “il Veronese” The artist’s works: Resurrezione della figlia di Giairo c.1546 Musée du Louvre, Paris Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina 1547–1548 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina c.1547–1550 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Venere disarma…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino (Holy Family with St John the Baptist) c.1529 Oil on panel, 129 x 100 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg A painting on the subject of the Holy Family with St John the…