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…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (The Virgin and Child with an Angel) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 114 x 63.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the central panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Il battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) 1500–1505 Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, 27.3 × 46.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond,…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) San Girolamo penitente (Penitent St. Jerome) c.1502 Oil on olive wood, 29.7 × 22.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Attributed to Perugino (c.1446-1523) Perugino was one of the first Central Italian painters to experiment with complicated oil glazes. Inspired by the…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Battesimo di Cristo (Baptism of Christ) c.1498–1500 Oil on olive wood, 30 × 23 x 2.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Perugino used his successful inventions again and again. This baptism goes back to his fresco in the Sistine Chapel. More…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Santa Maria Maddalena (Saint Mary Magdalene) c.1482–1485 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 95 x 30.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino after the city in which he often lived, collaborated with other celebrated painters in one of…