Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Daniele Barbaro (Portrait of Daniele Barbaro) c.1545 Oil on canvas, 81 x 69 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Described by Lodovico Dolce as a gentleman of great merit and infinite goodness, Daniele Barbaro (1513-1570) was from a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Federico II Gonzaga (Portrait of Federico II Gonzaga) 1529 Oil on panel, 125 x 99 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid On 16 April 1529 Federico II Gonzaga, First Duke of Mantua (1500-1540), apologised to his uncle Alfonso…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1480–1485 Tempera and oil on wood, 37.5 x 28.3 cm National Gallery, London This apparently simple portrait of a young man was revolutionary in Italian painting. Until this moment, artists…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) 1474 Tempera on poplar panel, 195 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin The Roman officer Sebastian was supposed to renounce his Christian faith in order to serve as the bodyguard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino e otto angeli, Raczyński Tondo (Madonna and Child with Eight Angels) c.1480 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 136.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin It is possible that this circular picture used to belong to the Brothers of S.…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1482–1485 Tempera on panel, 43.5 x 46.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This vertical portrait shows the head, shoulders, and chest of a young man with smooth, pale skin…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1478–1480 Tempera on panel, 75.5 x 52.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a man with pale, yellow-tinged skin is angled to our right with downcast eyes in this vertical portrait…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici 1478 Tempera on poplar, 57.1 x 38.4 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin Attributed to Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici, the younger brother of Lorenzo the Magnifico, was murdered in Florence Cathedral in 1478 at the age…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Vir dolorum (Christ Crowned with Thorns Blessing) c.1500 Tempera on panel, 47.6 x 32.3 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Arrived at the Carrara Academy by bequest of Giovanni Morelli, like the other two paintings by Sandro Botticelli exhibited on…