Guercino (1591-1666) Deposizione nel sepolcro (The Entombment) 1656 Oil on canvas, 146.7 x 221.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Guercino’s career is unusually well documented, in part due to the survival of his account books, which reveal that he…
Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
Guercino (1591-1666) La Sibilla Samia (The Samian Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 218.5 × 180 cm National Gallery, London The Samian Sibyl was one of 12 pagan sibyls (or priestesses) who, like the Old Testament prophets, were…
Guercino (1591-1666) Sibilla Cumana con putto (The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 222 x 168.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cumaean Sibyl is one of 12 pagan sibyls, or prophetesses, said to have foretold the coming…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Three Peasants in Conversation c.1498 Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, 10.6 × 7.6 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Estrazione del cuore di Sant’Ignazio (Extraction of St. Ignatius’ Heart) c.1480–1482 Oil on panel, 21 x 38 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Predella of the Altarpiece of St. Barnabas. Altarpiece of St. Barnabas: Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Pala di San Barnaba c.1480–1482…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna d’Alba (Alba Madonna) c.1510 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, diameter 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After four years in Florence, Raphael moved to Rome in 1508, probably to execute more significant commissions under the papal…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & assistants Visitazione (Visitation) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 200 x 145 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary visits her cousin, Elisabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John, as told in the New Testament (Luke…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 63 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma The subject of this portrait, according to tradition, was Raphael’s inspirational muse and mistress: Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker in…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…