Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Pietà 1563 Oil on canvas, 108 x 170 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting was intended to decorate a lunette in the courtyard of the Procuratie di San Marco in Venice and, according to documents, was…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sposalizio della Vergine (The Marriage of the Virgin) 1504 Oil on panel, 170 x 118 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The painting, dating from 1504, was moved from the Church of San Francesco in Città di Castello to…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Madonna dei Cherubini, Madonna con il Bambino e un coro di cherubini (Madonna of Cherubs, Madonna and Child with a Choir of Cherubs) 1485–1490 Tempera on panel, 88 x 70 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel,…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Polittico di San Luca (Saint Luke Polyptych) 1453–1454 Tempera on panel, 177 x 230 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) Cristo morto nel sepolcro e tre dolenti (The Dead Christ and Three Mourners) c.1483 Tempera on canvas, 68 x 81 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1448 Tempera on panel, 45 x 50 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Jacopo Bellini was the father of Gentile and Giovanni and a great painter in his own right, unfairly…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna con il Bambino (Madonna and Child) 1510 Oil on canvas, 85 x 115 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The Madonna and Child, dated 1510, is the latest of the works by Bellini in Brera. When he…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna Greca (The Greek Madonna) c.1465–1470 Oil on panel, 84 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The so-called ‘Greek Madonna’ by Giovanni Bellini takes its nickname from the Greek μήτηρ Θεού, seen at the top of…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Pietà c.1460 Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano The panel, dated to the years between 1465 and 1470, marks an evident emancipation of the artist from the influence of Andrea Mantegna, to…
Bellini, Jacopo (c.1400-c.1470) Madonna col Bambino benedicente e cherubini (Madonna and Child Blessing) c.1455 Tempera on wood, 82 x 55 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Different ideas have been put forward regarding the original provenance of the panel, which, in the…