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Allegoria della Salvezza (c.1521)

Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Allegoria della Salvezza (Allegory of Salvation with the Virgin and Christ Child, St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist and Two Angels) c.1521 Oil on panel, 161.29 × 119.38 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los…

San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Giovanni Battista nel deserto (Saint John the Baptist in the Desert) c.1445–1450 Tempera on panel, 28.4 x 31.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington One of Domenico Veneziano‘s major works is an altarpiece that he painted about 1445…

San Francesco riceve le stimmate (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 27.5 x 30.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a landscape with chiseled, rocky mountains beyond a grassy meadow and stream, two…

Madonna col Bambino (c.1445-1450)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 83 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the hips up, a woman to our left wears a sapphire-blue robe over a petal-pink dress,…

Martirio di San Bartolomeo (1634)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Martirio di San Bartolomeo (The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew) 1634 Oil on canvas, 104 x 113 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A popular subject in Counter–Reformation Italy and Spain, Ribera‘s profoundly moving work portrays the apostle’s…

Le lacrime di San Pietro (c.1612-1613)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Le lacrime di San Pietro (The Tears of Saint Peter) c.1612–1613 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Spanish by birth, Ribera moved to Italy when he was fourteen or fifteen. He…