Tag: MET

Madonna col Bambino (c.1505-1507)

Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1505–1507 Oil and gold on wood, 51.4 x 47.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The artist gave this painting to his daughter as a gift in 1507, possibly to celebrate the…

Madonna col Bambino in trono e due angeli (c.1440)

Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Madonna col Bambino in trono e due angeli (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels) c.1440 Tempera and gold on wood, transferred from wood, 122.6 x 62.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Virgin, known as “the…

San Lorenzo in trono con santi e donatori (c.1440s)

Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) San Lorenzo in trono con santi e donatori (Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors) c.1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 121.3 x 115.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Saint Lawrence is shown enthroned, with his feet…

San Cristoforo (c.1473)

Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ) c.1473 Fresco, 284.5 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This imposing, well-preserved mural is an early work by Ghirlandaio, one of the most popular painters in late-fifteenth-century…

Ritratto d’uomo (c.1477-1478)

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…

Santa Lucia (c.1507)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) c.1507 Oil on wood, 160 x 67 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York These two panels are from an enormous double-sided altarpiece on the high altar of the church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Begun by Filippino Lippi in 1502,…

San Giovanni Battista (c.1507)

Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1507 Oil on wood, 160 x 67 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York These two panels are from an enormous double-sided altarpiece on the high altar of the church of Santissima Annunziata,…