Tag: Virgin Mary

Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (1623)

Guercino (1591-1666) Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio (Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1623 Oil on copper, 72.5 x 65 cm National Gallery, London Mary and Joseph brought the infant Christ, forty days after his birth, to be presented in…

The Annunciation (1502-1503)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Annunciation c.1502–1503 Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream, 29.8 × 21.1 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA

Madonna col Bambino (c.1490)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1490 Tempera on panel, 88.9 x 55.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Botticelli oversaw an active workshop that produced multiple versions of the same composition. The central figures in this painting are…

Ia Orana Maria (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…

Santa Maria della Salute (Venezia)

Consecrated: 1681 Address: Dorsoduro, 1, 30123 Venezia VE, Italia Website: https://basilicasalutevenezia.it/ La Salute in Art:   Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute c.1730 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston     Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) La Punta della Dogana con S.…

La Inmaculada Concepción (1628-1630)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La Inmaculada Concepción (Immaculate Conception) 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 128 x 89 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The worship of the Immaculate Virgin is one of seventeenth-century Spain‘s identity traits, especially following a considerable argument between…