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San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Desert) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 28.4 x 31.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington One of Domenico Veneziano‘s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445…

San Francesco riceve le stimmate (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 27.5 x 30.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a landscape with chiseled, rocky mountains beyond a grassy meadow and stream, two…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 83 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress,…

Martirio di San Bartolomeo (1634)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Martirio di San Bartolomeo (The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew) 1634 Oil on canvas, 104 x 113 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A popular subject in Counter–Reformation Italy and Spain, Ribera‘s profoundly moving work portrays the apostle’s…

Santa Caterina (1522)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Santa Caterina (Saint Catherine) 1522 Oil on panel, 57.2 x 50.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the waist up and nearly filling the picture, a young woman with pale skin, dressed in a jewel-toned gown and…

Natività (1523)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Natività (The Nativity) 1523 Oil on panel, 46 x 35.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman and an older man kneel to either side of a nude baby outside of a barn-like structure in this vertical…

Allegoria della castità (c.1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della castità (Allegory of Chastity) c.1505 Oil on panel, 42.9 x 33.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This small panel by Lotto can be dated to early in his career because of stylistic similarities to Allegory of…

Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…

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…