Raffaello (1483-1520) Incoronazione della Vergine, detta Pala Oddi (Crowning of the Virgin, called Oddi Altarpiece) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 272 x 165 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Crowning of the Virgin was painted for the altar of…
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…
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…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Noli me Tangere 1526–1528 Oil on oak panel, 76.7 x 95.8 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London When the diarist John Evelyn saw this painting in Charles II’s Private Lodgings at Whitehall in 1680 he recorded…
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…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Dormition of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 67.7 x 85.3 x 12.6 cm Upton House and Gardens, England This ‘grisaille’, or grey monochrome painting, shows the death of the Virgin, attended by the…
Consecrated: 1626 Address: Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano Website: https://www.basilicasanpietro.va/it.html 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…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Vocazione dei santi Pietro e Andrea (Calling of Saints Andrew and Peter) c.1602–1604 Oil on canvas, 140.1 x 176 cm Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace, London Christ gestures ahead while turning back to the brothers Simon (later Peter) and Andrew,…
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…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Crocifissione di San Pietro (Crucifixion of Saint Peter) 1600–1601 Oil on canvas, 230 x 175 cm Cappella Cerasi, Santa Maria del Popolo, Roma