Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna del Sacco (Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel) c.1500 Oil on wood, 86.4 x 83.3 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze See also: • Fancelli, Chiara (c.1470-1541)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Compianto sul Cristo morto (Lamentation over the Dead Christ) 1495 Oil on wood, 220 x 195 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Inscription: PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT A.D. MCCCCLXXXXV The body of Christ taken down from the cross is lying over…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna della Seggiola (Madonna of the Chair) c.1512 Oil on wood, diameter 71 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Mary is seen from the side, seated on a ‘chamber chair’, a type of seat reserved for the high dignitaries of the papal…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge à l’hostie (The Virgin with the Host) 1841 Oil on canvas, 116 х 84 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow Compare: Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) La Vierge adorant l’hostie 1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York …
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Vergine orante (The Virgin at prayer) c.1582–1585 Oil on canvas, 62.3 x 41.6 cm Private collection
Blake, William (1757-1827) Baptism of Christ c.1799 Tempera over pen and ink on canvas, 32.4 x 49.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Exposición del cuerpo de San Buenaventura (Exhibition of the Body of Saint Bonaventure) c.1629 Oil on canvas, 245 x 220 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painted for the church of the San Buenaventura college in Seville, around 1629;…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) La Inmaculada Concepción (The Immaculate Conception) 1662–1665 Oil on canvas, 172 x 298 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Inscription: On the phylactery held by two angels: “IN PRINCIPIO DILEXIT EAM”. Part of a series of four large…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Jeune fille chrétienne (Young Christian Girl) 1894 Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 46.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Bretagne (France)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) c.1635 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 68.6 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Zurbarán is recognized as one of the greatest Spanish painters of the seventeenth century. He…