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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.34 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo The Symbolists, who emerged during the 1880s, were weary of modern society and sought escape from reality. They began to…
Founded: 1506 Address: Via dello Spasimo 15, 90133 Palermo PA, Italia Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Art: Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Spasimo di Sicilia 1515–1516 Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Churches | Palermo (Italia)
Catedral Primada Santa María de Toledo Consecrated: 587 Groundbreaking: 1226 Completed: 1493 Location: Calle Cardenal Cisneros 1, 45002 Toledo, España Website: https://www.catedralprimada.es/ Museum: • Museo Tesoro Catedralicio Catedral de Toledo in Art: El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo c.1599–1600 Metropolitan Museum…
Founded: 1025 Location: Monistrol de Montserrat, Barcelona Order: Benedictine Dedicated to Santa María de Montserrat Website: https://abadiamontserrat.cat/ Museum: • Museu de Montserrat Collection: • Caravaggio (1571-1610): San Girolamo in meditazione (1605-06) See also: • Abbeys
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Madonna di Loreto, Madonna dei Pellegrini (Pilgrim’s Madonna) c.1604 Oil on canvas, 260 x 150 cm Cappella Cavalletti, Sant’Agostino in Campo Marzio, Roma See also: • Loreto (Italia)