Tag: portrait

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…

Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (1490)

Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) Ritratto di vecchio con nipote (Portrait of an Old Man with his Grandson) 1490 Tempera on poplar wood, 62.7 x 46.3 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris It has sometimes been proposed to identify the old man with a…

Isabella d’Este, marchesa di Mantova (c.1534-1536)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Isabella d’Este, marchesa di Mantova (Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua) c.1534–1536 Oil on canvas, 102.4 × 64.7 × 2.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)

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,…

Jeune bergère (1885)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Jeune bergère (Young Shepherdess) 1885 Oil on canvas mounted on board, 157.48 cm x 72.39 cm San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego

San Romolo (c.1423-1424)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) San Romolo (Saint Romulus) c.1423–1424 Egg tempera on wood, 16 x 15.6 cm National Gallery, London We can piece together who this saint is: his mitre (hat) and crosier (crook) identify him as a bishop, and a faint inscription…

Sant’Alessandro (c.1425)

Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Sant’Alessandro (Saint Alexander) c.1425 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 15.9 x 15.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by Fra Angelico dates about 1425 and formed part of the decoration of the frame of an…