Perugino (c.1446-1523) La Natività (The Nativity) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 26.2 × 46.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his…
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria del Vizio (Allegory of Vice) c.1531 Tempera on canvas, 14.2 × 85.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Companion: Correggio (c.1489-1534) Allegoria della Virtù c.1531 Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539)
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Paesaggio con la Fuga in Egitto (Landscape with the Flight into Egypt) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma It is the leading element of the so-called “Aldobrandini Lunettes”, thanks to which the…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ninfa e pastore (Nymph and shepherd) c.1570–1575 Oil on canvas, 149.6 × 187 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The theme on which the picture is based has not yet been satisfactorily clarified, but Titian raised it to the mythical level…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune berger au repos (Young Shepherd in Repose/Portrait of Alexander Thurneyssen) 1911 Oil on canvas, 75.6 x 93.3 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio (Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria and a Shepherd, known as The Virgin with the Rabbit) c.1530 Oil on canvas, 71 × 87 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Vierge au lapin, d’après Titien (The Virgin with the Rabbit, after Titian) c.1850 Oil on canvas, 70 × 84 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Madonna del Coniglio c.1530 Musée du Louvre, Paris
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le chant du berger (The Shepherd’s Song) 1891 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 109.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Puvis adapted this composition from a mural that he made for the Musée des Beaux-Arts…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) shortly after 1450 Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, the…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…