Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (The Virgin of the Rocks) c.1483–1486 Oil on wood transferred to canvas 199.5 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is mentioned for the first time in 1625 at the Château de Fontainebleau.…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1472 Oil on panel, 90 x 222 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A flourishing enclosed garden, in front of a Renaissance palace, evokes the hortus conclusus that alludes to the purity of Mary. Archangel Gabriel…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Vocazione dei santi Pietro e Andrea (Calling of Saints Andrew and Peter) c.1602–1604 Oil on canvas, 140.1 x 176 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London Christ gestures ahead while turning back to the brothers Simon (later Peter) and Andrew,…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Giovanni Battista (John the Baptist) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 172.5 x 104.5 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cattura di Cristo (Taking of Christ) c.1602 Oil on canvas, 133 x 171 cm Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa Stolen in July 2008, it was recovered -badly damaged- in 2010 by German police in Berlin. The…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Martirio di Sant’Orsola (Martyrdom of Saint Ursula) 1610 Oil on canvas, 143 x 180 cm Galleria di Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Napoli According to legend, Saint Ursula traveled with eleven thousand virgins to Cologne, where the chief of the Huns besieging…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo scrivente (Saint Jerome Writing) 1607–1608 Oil on canvas, 117 x 157 cm St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sette opere di misericordia (Seven Works of Mercy) 1606–1607 Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli
Caravaggio (1571-1610) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent Saint Jerome) 1605 Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 101.5 cm Museu de Montserrat, Barcelona