Tag: Saint Peter

Pala Colonna (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…

Madonna in trono con santi (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna…

Orazione nell’orto (c.1455-1456)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Orazione nell’orto (Agony in the Garden) c.1455–1456 Egg tempera on wood, 62.9 × 80 cm National Gallery, London Christ is shown in prayer. Aware that his disciple Judas had betrayed him, he left Jerusalem and took refuge in…

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano

Consecrated: 1626 Location: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano Website: http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_pietro/index_it.htm Art: • Michelangelo (1475-1564): Pietà (1498-1499) Basilica di San Pietro in Art: Bouguereau, William (1825-1905) Le Repos 1879 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland     Burials: • Barberini, Maffeo (1568-1644), Pope Urban VIII…

Cena in Emmaus (1601)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Cena in Emmaus (Supper at Emmaus) 1601 Oil and tempera on canvas, 141 × 196.2 cm National Gallery, London On the third day after the Crucifixion two of Jesus’s disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. On the road they…