Tag: scene

Pietà (c.1500)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels) c.1500 Oil on panel, 17.5 x 33.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Adorazione dei Magi (c.1480)

Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the Kings) c.1480 Oil with some egg tempera on wood, 57.5 x 85.7 cm National Gallery, London A ruinous chapel-like building stands in a rocky landscape. The Virgin Mary sits on the…

Madonna col Bambino (1426)

Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) 1426 Egg tempera on wood, 134.8 x 73.5 cm National Gallery, London This was once the central panel of an altarpiece, probably a polyptych, made by Masaccio for the Carmelite church of Santa…

Desco da parto (c.1423)

Masaccio (1401-1428) Desco da parto (Birth plate) c.1423 Tempera on poplar panel, diameter 66 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the 15th century, it was customary in Florence to give families a so-called birth plate or desco da parto after the birth of…

San Sebastiano (1653)

Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…

La Fucina di Vulcano (c.1564)

Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) La Fucina di Vulcano (The Forge of Vulcan) c.1564 Oil on copper, 38 x 28 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Francesco I de’ Medici (1541-1587)