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…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) San Giovanni Battista (Saint John the Baptist) 1496 Oil on panel, 136 x 56 cm Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze This panel probably formed a triptych with the Crucifixion between Mary and Saint Francis, destroyed, and Saint Mary Magdalene. The other…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Santa Maria Maddalena (Saint Mary Magdalene) 1496 Oil on panel, 136 x 56 cm Galleria dell’Accademia, Firenze This panel probably formed a triptych with the Crucifixion between Mary and Saint Francis (destroyed) and Saint John the Baptist. The…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Santi Gregorio Magno e Mattia (Saint Gregory? and Saint Matthias) c.1428–1429 Tempera grassa and oil on poplar, transferred to fibreboard, 126.3 x 59.1 cm National Gallery, London Saint Matthias is shown holding the axe that was used…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Santi Girolamo e Giovanni Battista (Saints Jerome and John the Baptist) c.1428–1429 Egg tempera on poplar, 125 x 58.9 cm National Gallery, London Saint Jerome, wearing his red cardinal’s hat, and Saint John the Baptist stand side by side…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…
Verrocchio, Andrea del (1435-1488) San Girolamo (Saint Jerome) c.1460 Mixed media on paper glued on board, 40.5 x 27 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The figure is identified as Saint Jerome by his aged appearance, his face weathered and torso semi-nude…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1493 Oil on poplar wood, 186 × 172 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Mary with Child and St. Peter, John the Evangelist (?), John the Baptist and Paul. Signature: On the…