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Viana (España)
Santa Caterina d’Alessandria e committente (c.1480)
Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Santa Caterina d’Alessandria e committente (Saint Catherine of Alexandria with a Donor) c.1480 Oil on wood, 56.5 x 38.1 cm National Gallery, London This painting was made for private worship, and the donor who commissioned it is shown kneeling…
Xàtiva (España)
Births: • Borgia, Rodrigo (1431-1503), Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503) • Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) See also: • Cities | España
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…
Vigevano (Italia)
Births: • Sforza, Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan (1452-1508) See also: • Cities | Italia
Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (c.1496-1500)
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (The Virgin and Child with an Angel) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 114 x 63.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the central panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for…
