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Maddalena che ascolta la predica di Cristo (c.1484-1491)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Maddalena che ascolta la predica di Cristo (Saint Mary Magdalene Listening to Christ Preach) c.1484–1491 Tempera on panel, 20 x 43.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia This panel was part of the predella of the Pala delle Convertite.…

Madonna con un angelo adorante (c.1468)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna con un angelo adorante (Madonna and Child with Adoring Angel) c.1468 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 68 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Botticelli was one of the most individual and influential painters in Florence at the end of…

Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (1490s)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ultima comunione di san Gerolamo (Last Communion of Saint Jerome) early 1490s Tempera and gold on wood,34.3 x 25.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The great fourth-century scholar and translator of the Bible into Latin is shown in…

Crocifissione mistica (c.1500)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Crocifissione mistica (Mystic Crucifixion) c.1500 Tempera and oil on canvas (transferred from panel), 72.4 x 51.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the 1490s, Florence came under the sway of the magnetic Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The century had…

Madonna dell’Eucarestia (1470-1474)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna dell’Eucarestia (Virgin and Child with an Angel) 1470–1474 Tempera on panel, 85 x 64.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston A vast number of paintings of the Virgin and Child were produced in Florence in the late 1400s…

Ritratto di giovane uomo (1482-1485)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ritratto di giovane uomo (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1482–1485 Tempera on panel, 43.5 x 46.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This vertical portrait shows the head, shoulders, and chest of a young man with smooth, pale skin…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1470)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 74.5 x 54.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this…

Madonna che adora il Bambino (1480-1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna che adora il Bambino (The Virgin Adoring the Child) c.1480–1490 Tempera on panel, diam. 58.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman kneels, angled to our left, and tips her face down toward a naked baby propped…

Giuliano de’ Medici (1478-1480)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Giuliano de’ Medici c.1478–1480 Tempera on panel, 75.5 x 52.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the chest up, a man with pale, yellow-tinged skin is angled to our right with downcast eyes in this vertical portrait…

Storia di Lucrezia (c.1500)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1500 Tempera and oil on panel, 83.8 x 176.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston According to legend, Lucretia’s brutal rape and tragic suicide precipitated the foundation of the Roman Republic. Botticelli…