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) 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…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) La testa della Vergine di tre quarti rivolta a destra (The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right) 1510–1513 Black, red and white chalk and charcoal, 20.3 x 15.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes c.1509–1510 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 44.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Together with Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the leading figures in the 16th-century…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1505 Oil on poplar, 48 × 41.8 × 2.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This bust of an idealized young man with a rich mane of curls and an arrow in…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Laura 1506 Canvas on (old) spruce wood, 41 × 33.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The young lady in a red, fur-lined coat, named after the laurel (lauro) that entails her, is, with the exception of the “Vanitas” in…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Terrranuova (Mary with the Child, John the Baptist and a Holy Boy) c.1505 Oil on poplar wood, diameter 88.7 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SIGNATURE / INSCRIPTION: Ribbon (EC)CE AGNIVS (DE) Of the five paintings of the Virgin Mary by…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Sant’Anna, la Vergine e il Bambino con l’agnellino (Virgin and Child with St Anne) c.1503–1519 Oil on poplar, 168 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting was started around 1503 at least, in Florence, then was…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (Virgin of the Rocks) c.1491–1499 and 1506–1508 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled, 189.5 x 120 cm National Gallery, London Full title: The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child…