Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Madonna della Vittoria (The Virgin of Victory) 4th quarter of the 15th century Tempera on poplar, 285 x 168 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Virgin and Child surrounded by six saints (Michael, Andrew, Longinus, George, Elizabeth, the young…
Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) Six Eaux Forts (Six Etchings) 1895 Etching, 32.5 x 25 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna con Bambino in gloria e Santi (Virgin and Child in Glory with Six Saints) c.1528 Oil on panel, 209 x 176 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze This is the central panel of the Pala di Gambassi, commissioned…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Sei poeti toscani (Six Tuscan Poets) 1544 Oil on panel, 132.08 x 131.13 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) | Cavalcanti, Guido (c.1255-1300) | Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) La Vergine con sei santi (The Virgin with Six Saints) 1755–1756 Oil on canvas, 72.8 × 56 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Lions dans un paysage montagneux (Lions in a Mountainous Landscape) c.1818–1820 Oil on wood, 48.3 x 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This vigorous painting of six lions in a remote, spectrally illuminated lair—possibly intended to…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna Rucellai (Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by angels) c.1285 Tempera on wood, gold background, 450 x 290 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di Sant’Ambrogio (Madonna and Child with Six Saints) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 170 x 194 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Altarpiece of Sant’Ambrogio, depicting the Madonna with Child and Saints, painted around 1470, when the artist was…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna della Melagrana (Madonna of the Pomegranate) 1487 Tempera on panel, diameter 143.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The Madonna and Child with Angels called “Madonna of the Pomegranate” is a 1487 panel on wood full of symbols and…