Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Arrivo degli ambasciatori (Arrival of the Ambassadors) c.1497–1498 Oil on canvas, 278 x 589 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia This is the first of nine paintings in the cycle of the Legend of St. Ursula (Storie di sant’Orsola). The paintings…
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Ritorno di Ulisse (Return of Ulysses/Penelope with the Suitors) c.1509 Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas, 125.5 x 152 cm National Gallery, London This picture, painted in fresco, was part of a series of eight which decorated the walls of…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Desert) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 28.4 x 31.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington One of Domenico Veneziano‘s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445…
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…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ratto di Europa (The Rape of Europa) c.1570 Oil on canvas glued to oak panel, 59.5 x 70 cm National Gallery, London The story of the Rape of Europa is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Mercury is ordered by his…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Leader Sea Piece 1809 Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on wove paper, 17.5 × 25.7 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) 1952 Gouache on card, 17.8 × 14.9 cm Menil Collection, Houston
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Battaglia degli dei marini (Battle of Sea-Gods) s.d. Engraving, 31.75 x 32.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Compare: Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Zuffa degli dei marini 1485–1488 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Zuffa di dei marini c.1470–1475 Princeton University…