Tag: Virgin Mary

The Procession to Calvary (1564)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Procession to Calvary 1564 Oil on oak panel, 124.3 × 170.6 × 1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: BRVEGEL. MD.LXIIII Bruegel continues the Netherlandish pictorial tradition reaching back to Jan van Eyck…

Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption (Auvers-sur-Oise)

Founded: 11th century Built: 1137–1227 Address: Place de l’Eglise, 95430 Auvers-sur-Oise, France The Chuch at Auvers-sur-Oise in Art: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 Musée d’Orsay, Paris     See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France) | Churches

Vergine delle rocce (c.1508)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (Virgin of the Rocks) c.1491–1499 and 1506–1508 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled, 189.5 x 120 cm National Gallery, London Full title: The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child…

Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milano)

Basilica e Convento Domenicano di Santa Maria delle Grazie UNESCO World Heritage Site Completed: 1497 Address: Piazza di Santa Maria delle Grazie 2, 20123 Milano MI, Italia Website: https://legraziemilano.it/ Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano: Website: https://cenacolovinciano.org/ • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519):…

Vergine delle rocce (c.1483-1486)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (The Virgin of the Rocks) c.1483–1486 Oil on wood transferred to canvas 199.5 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is mentioned for the first time in 1625 at the Château de Fontainebleau.…

Adorazione dei Magi (c.1482)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) c.1482 Drawing in charcoal, watercolour ink and oil on wood, 244 x 240 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A document from July 1481 states that Leonardo da Vinci had received a…

Annunciazione (c.1472)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1472 Oil on panel, 90 x 222 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A flourishing enclosed garden, in front of a Renaissance palace, evokes the hortus conclusus that alludes to the purity of Mary. Archangel Gabriel…

Madonna Benois (1478-1480)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Benois 1478–1480 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 49.5 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg One of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci combined the talents of artist and scientist, inventor…

Madonna Litta (mid-1490s)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…