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Natività (c.1420-1422)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles

Madonna della Scala (1522)

Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna della Scala (The Virgin and Child between Saint Matthew and an Angel) 1522 Oil on panel, 177 x 135 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child, flanked on the right by an…

Ritratto di uomo (c.1535)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di uomo (Portrait of a Man, Mercurio Bua) c.1535 Oil on canvas, 118 x 105 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The character, long believed to be a self-portrait of the artist, is depicted inside a closed environment, the…

Madonna col Bambino e santi (1522)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…

Uomo su una scala (1504-1505)

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…

Adorazione dei Magi, Tondo Cook (c.1440-1460)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) & Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Adorazione dei Magi, Tondo Cook (The Adoration of the Magi) c.1440–1460 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 137.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of people line up around a shed-like structure and around stone ruins…

Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (c.1460-1465)

Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (Madonna and Child with Two Angels) c.1460–1465 Tempera on panel, 95 x 62 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Compare: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e angelo c.1465 Spedale degli Innocenti, Firenze    …

Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (c.1480)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino (The Virgin and Child with Saint John) c.1480 Tempera on poplar, 59.1 x 43.8 cm National Gallery, London At the centre of this painting is the Virgin Mary, who covers almost its entire…

Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (1541)

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…