Michelangelo (1475-1564) Ragazzo accovacciato (Crouching Boy) c.1530–1534 Marble, height: 54 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Renaissance genius Michelangelo was an outstanding architect and poet, as well as the creator of the celebrated frescoes in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. But his…
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) Madonna dell’Annunciazione (Madonna from the Annunciation Scene) 1340–1344 Tempera on poplar panel, 30.5 x 21.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This painting was once the right-hand wing of a folding diptych showing the Annunciation. The left wing, with…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di vecchio (Portrait of an Old Man) early 1550s Oil on canvas, 93 x 72 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Cristo conduce gli Apostoli sul monte Tabor (Christ Leading the Apostles to Mount Tabor) 1511–1512 Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 57.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di famiglia (Family Portrait) 1523–1524 Oil on canvas, 96 x 116 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto con Santa Giustina (Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St Justine) 1529–1530 Oil on canvas, 82 x 132.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The story of Saint Justine is full of puzzles…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Visione di Sant’Agostino (Vision of St Augustine) c.1460 Tempera on panel, 28 x 51.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Originally part of an altar, this work takes its subject from a description of the life of St Augustine,…
Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Extase poétique (Poetic Ecstasy) 1876 Drypoint on paper, 26.3 x 18.2 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Composition 1924 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) Bacchante 1911 Oil on canvas pasted on cardboard, 32.7 x 41 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg