Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1470–1480 Oil on panel, 55 x 49 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Attributed to Giovanni Bellini.
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Testa di Maria, in Adorazione (Head of Mary, in an Adoration) 1518–1523 Chalk on paper, 32.1 x 23.9 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) c.1626–1628 Oil on canvas, 138.5 × 216 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left: HORATIVS GENTILESHVS FECIT On the run from Herod, the Holy Family rests…
Donatello (1386-1466) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1445 Gilded bronze, marble, 87 x 51 x 12 cm; bronze tondo: 27 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The Madonna in Donatello’s bronze relief sits modestly on the ground, thus inviting the viewer to…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Sacra Famiglia con Sant’Anna e san Giovannino (Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John) c.1540 Oil on poplar panel, 126.8 x 101.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the stone under the left foot of the…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Matrimonio mistico di santa Caterina (Mystic Marriage of St Catherine) 16th century Oil on panel, 184 x 133 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) St Luke Drawing the Virgin 15th century Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 108.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The subject is taken from a 6th-century legend of Greek origin, according to which St Luke was the…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Madonna col Bambino e cherubini (Madonna and Child with Cherubs) 1520s Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 111 x 75.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg The Florentine Mannerist Rosso Fiorentino developed at an early age an extravagant, experimental…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Conestabile (Conestabile Madonna) c.1504 Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 17.5 x 18 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Raphael entered the history of Italian art as the “genius of harmony”. The ideals of the High Renaissance were…