Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Diana ed Endimione (Diana and Endymion) c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 164 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Diana ed Endimione (c.1675-1680)
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Natività (c.1420-1422)
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In this painting Gentile da Fabriano combined several different devotional and biblical subjects: the Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the…
Il rispetto (c.1575)
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il rispetto (Four Allegories of Love: Respect) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.1 x 194.3 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of love,…
Venere e Adone (c.1580)
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone (Venus and Adonis) c.1580 Oil on canvas, 162 × 191 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Like its pair, Cephalus and Procris (Strasbourg Museum, inv. 634, oil on canvas, 162 x 185 cm), this canvas illustrates a…
La resurrezione (1500-1505)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) La resurrezione (The Resurrection) 1500–1505 Tempera on wood, 27 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This exceptionally well-preserved picture and four others in the Art Institute of Chicago formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece—possibly the large…
Incoronazione della Vergine (c.1434-1435)
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Incoronazione della Vergine (Coronation of the Virgin) c.1434–1435 Tempera on poplar, 209 x 206 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The miter-shaped cutout of the painted surface at the top is original. Main register of an altarpiece from which elements…
Sleeping Child (c.1906)
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Sleeping Child c.1906 Graphite pencil on cream wove paper, 54.9 × 34.9 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Visione di san Girolamo (1526-1527)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Visione di san Girolamo (Vision of Saint Jerome) 1526–1527 Oil on poplar, 342.9 x 148.6 cm National Gallery, London This altarpiece is the greatest work that Parmigianino painted in Rome. It was commissioned by Maria Bufolina for a burial…
Madonna dal collo lungo (1534-1540)
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Madonna dal collo lungo (Long-necked Madonna) 1534–1540 Oil on panel, 216.5 x 132.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Venere e Amore spiati da un satiro (c.1524-1527)
Correggio (c.1489-1534) Venere e Amore spiati da un satiro (Venus and Cupid Spied on by a Satyr) c.1524–1527 Oil on canvas, 188 × 125 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris