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)
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Deposizione (Entombment of Christ) c.1600–1604 Oil on canvas, 300 x 203 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Deposition, considered one of Caravaggio‘s greatest masterpieces, was commissioned by Girolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) in Rome.…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1609 Oil on canvas, 185 x 205 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy