Tag: Virgin Mary

Madonna col Bambino benedicente (c.1480)

Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) Madonna col Bambino benedicente (The Virgin and Blessing Child) c.1480 Tempera on wood, 53.5 x 35.5 cm National Gallery, London Presented by Queen Victoria at the Prince Consort’s wish, 1863. Pintoricchio painted a number of images of the Virgin…

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…

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,…

La Vergine e il Bambino in trono (c.1440-1444)

Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) La Vergine e il Bambino in trono (The Virgin and Child Enthroned) c.1440–1444 Fresco, transferred to canvas, 241 x 120.5 cm National Gallery, London This is the central part of a fresco which was once flanked by two standing…

Pietà (1633)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Pietà 1633 Oil on canvas, 157 × 210 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present canvas is signed and dated “Jusepe de Ribera español 1633” on the stone at the lower right corner, a formula used by the artist…