Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’unione felice (Four Allegories of Love: Happy Union) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 186.7 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) La Bella Nani (Portrait of a Venetian woman) c.1560 Oil on canvas, 119 × 103 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris At the time of its rediscovery at the end of the 19th century, it was thought that this portrait…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Sacra Famiglia con San Girolamo (Holy family with Saint Jerome) 1534 Oil on canvas, 69 x 87.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di gentildonna ispirata a Lucrezia (Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia) c.1530–1533 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 110.6 cm National Gallery, London A sumptuously dressed young woman stands between the back of an armchair and a table.…
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…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Ritratto di donna con un uomo al davanzale (Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement) c.1440 Tempera on wood, 64.1 x 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Italian painting, this is the earliest…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Santi Gregorio Magno e Mattia (Saint Gregory? and Saint Matthias) c.1428–1429 Tempera grassa and oil on poplar, transferred to fibreboard, 126.3 x 59.1 cm National Gallery, London Saint Matthias is shown holding the axe that was used…