Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Ritorno degli ambasciatori (The Return of the Ambassadors) c.1497–1498 Oil on canvas, 297 x 526 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the third of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola). The…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del padiglione (Madonna of the Pavilion) c.1490 Tempera on panel, diameter 65 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano This splendid tondo by Sandro Botticelli, executed with the tip of a brush with a miniaturistic attention, proposes an apparently conventional religious…