Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Assunta Passerini (The Assumption of the Virgin) c.1526–1528 Oil on panel, 379 × 222 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This large altarpiece, almost 4 meters high and 2 meters wide, represents the miracle of the Assumption of the…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) c.1523 Oil on panel, 94 × 68 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze By choosing to depict the sculpted figure of a young Saint John the Baptist standing out against a…
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Caterina, Elisabetta e Giovanni Battista (The Virgin and Child with St Catherine, St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist) 1513 Oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis and an Unidentified Female Saint) c.1505 Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 80.50 x 102.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
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…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Assunzione della Vergine con i Santi Michele e Benedetto (The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict) c.1493–1496 Oil and gold on wood, 170.8 x 131.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This altarpiece combines…
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Uomo su una scala (Man on a Ladder) 1504–1505 Oil on wood, 88.3 × 52 cm National Gallery, London This fragment of a larger painting shows an elderly man, almost bald but for a few tufts of white…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) San Lorenzo in trono con santi e donatori (Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors) c.1440s Tempera on wood, gold ground, 121.3 x 115.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Saint Lawrence is shown enthroned, with his feet…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Santi Agostino e Francesco, Santo Vescovo, e San Benedetto (Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Benedict) c.1452–1464 Tempera on paper, laid down on canvas, transferred from wood, 142.2 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of…