Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Tobia e l’angelo (Tobias and the Angel) c.1475–1480 Oil and tempera on poplar panel, 32.7 x 23.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Diluvio e recessione delle acque (Flood and the Waters Receding) 1436–1440 Fresco transferred to canvas, 215 x 510 cm Santa Maria Novella, Firenze This lunette is the upper work of the “Scenes from the Life of Noah“. The fresco…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Storie di Noè (Scenes from the Life of Noah) 1436–1440 Fresco transferred to canvas Santa Maria Novella, Firenze The upper work is the lunette “The Flood and the Waters Receding“. Below is a rectangular work showing “The Sacrifice…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Caccia notturna (The Hunt in the Forest) c.1465–1470 Tempera and oil, with traces of gold, on panel, 73.3 x 177 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Verrocchio (1435-1488) & Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) c.1470–1475 Tempera and oil on wood, 177 x 151 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The artist had the collaboration of his young pupil Leonardo, who executed the figure of…
Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1448-1494) San Cristoforo (Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ) c.1473 Fresco, 284.5 x 149.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This imposing, well-preserved mural is an early work by Ghirlandaio, one of the most popular painters in late-fifteenth-century…