Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1517–1518 Oil on linen, 72.4 x 57.2 cm National Gallery, London We have interrupted a young man reading; he turns to look over his shoulder at us. The unguarded look…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di uomo (Portrait of a Man, Mercurio Bua) c.1535 Oil on canvas, 118 x 105 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The character, long believed to be a self-portrait of the artist, is depicted inside a closed environment, the…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Nicola da Tolentino (Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Nicholas of Tolentino) c.1522 Oil on canvas, 94.3 x 77.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Compare: Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557)…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (Madonna and Child with Saints) 1522 Oil on canvas, 91 x 75.4 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary holds the naked infant Christ who sits on a pillow on a coffin. The elderly…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Ritratto di gentildonna ispirata a Lucrezia (Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia) c.1530–1533 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 110.6 cm National Gallery, London A sumptuously dressed young woman stands between the back of an armchair and a table.…
Lippi, Filippo (1406-1469) Ritratto di donna con un uomo al davanzale (Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement) c.1440 Tempera on wood, 64.1 x 41.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In Italian painting, this is the earliest…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Angelo adorante (An Angel Adoring) c.1495 Tempera on wood, 55.9 x 25.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting is a damaged fragment of a larger composition by the Florentine painter Filippino Lippi. The original appearance of the complete picture…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Sant’Alessandro (Saint Alexander) c.1425 Tempera on wood, gold ground, 15.9 x 15.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This early work by Fra Angelico dates about 1425 and formed part of the decoration of the frame of an…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Leisure Hours 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.9 × 118.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Anne and Marion Pender were the daughters of Sir John Pender, a wealthy textile merchant from Glasgow. The girls’ identical red velvet…