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…
Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) c.1470 Tempera on panel, 57.7 x 43.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Detail.
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…
Consecrated: 1681 Location: Fondamenta Salute, 30123 Venezia La Salute in Art: Canaletto (1697-1768) Santa Maria della Salute s.d. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute c.1730 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston …
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…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Virgen Niña (The Young Virgin) c.1632–1633 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to medieval legend, as a girl the Virgin Mary lived in the Temple in Jerusalem, where…
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari Founded: 1250 Completed: 1338 Location: San Polo, 3072 – 30125 Venezia Website: https://www.basilicadeifrari.it/ The high altar with Titian‘s Assumption. The choir by Marco Cozzi. The tomb of Canova, originally designed by him as a mausoleum for Titian.…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna in contemplazione (The Virgin in Contemplation) 16th century Oil on canvas, 75 cm x 48 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 16th century Oil on canvas, 141 cm x 219 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Compare: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi 1500s Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Adorazione dei Magi c.1557–1560…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna tra i santi Giorgio e Dorotea (Virgin and Child with St. Dorothy and St. George) c.1515–1518 Oil on panel, 86 x 130 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The authorship, dating and iconography of this work are all controversial. It…