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Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…

Autoritratto in aspetto di Medusa (post 1474)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Autoritratto in aspetto di Medusa (Self-portrait as Medusa) post 1474 Pen, brush, ink on paper, 124 x 99 mm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze In the late 18th century, this work was recorded as “Mask in pen” in the…

Natività (early 1480s)

Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…

Battesimo di Cristo (c.1437-1445)

Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…