Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegoria della battaglia di Lepanto (Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto) 1571 Oil on canvas, 170 x 137 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Caterina e Giovanni Battista (Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and John the Baptist) c.1496–1500 Oil on panel, 50 x 81 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) San Sebastiano (St Sebastian) c.1576 Oil on canvas, 210 x 115.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg One of Titian’s most staggering works in terms of its tragic spirit is St Sebastian. What a gulf separates him from the placid personage…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Maddalena penitente (Penitent Magdalene) 1560s Oil on canvas, 119 x 97 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Titian turned to the subject of the repentant Mary Magdalene on several occasions, but this version he kept for himself in his…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria c.1630 Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The infant Jesus responds with playful enthusiasm to an adoring Saint Catherine, a princess identified by…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria e committente (Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor) c.1480 Oil on wood, 56.5 x 38.1 cm National Gallery, London This painting was made for private worship, and the donor who commissioned it is shown kneeling…
Pontormo (1494-1557) Madonna col Bambino, sant’Anna e quattro santi (Madonna and Child with Saint Anne and four saints) 1527–1529 Oil on wood, 228 x 176 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna in trono col Bambino e quattro santi (Enthroned Madonna and Child with four saints) 1518 Oil on panel, 172 x 141 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) San Sebastiano curato da Irene (Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Companions) c.1660 Oil on canvas, 151.1 x 199.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Storie di S. Nicola di Bari: San Nicola salva una nave da un naufragio (Stories of St. Nicholas of Bari: St Nicholas saves a ship from a shipwreck) 1425 Tempera on panel, 35.5 × 36 cm Pinacoteca…