Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Ratto di Europa (The Rape of Europa) c.1570 Oil on canvas glued to oak panel, 59.5 x 70 cm National Gallery, London The story of the Rape of Europa is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Mercury is ordered by his…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: L’infedeltà (Four Allegories of Love: Unfaithfulness) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 189.9 x 189.9 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of love, although…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Allegorie dell’amore: Il disinganno (Four Allegories of Love: Scorn) c.1575 Oil on canvas, 186.6 x 188.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of a series of four paintings by Veronese that concern the trials and rewards of…
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone (Venus and Adonis) c.1586 Oil on canvas, 68 × 52 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Venere e Adone c.1580 Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: • Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD): The Metamorphoses (English)
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Giove scaccia i vizi (Jupiter chases away the vices) c.1553 Oil on canvas, 560 × 330 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina (The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria) 1547–1548 Oil on canvas, 145.5 × 205 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) Sposalizio mistico di santa Caterina c.1547–1550 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna Rucellai (Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by angels) c.1285 Tempera on wood, gold background, 450 x 290 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Martini, Simone (c.1284-1344) & Memmi, Lippo (c.1291-1356) Annunciazione e i santi Ansano e Massima (Annunciation with St. Ansanus and St. Massima) 1333 Tempera on wood, gold background, 184 x 168 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Madonna degli Angeli (Madonna and Child, Saint Elizabeth, Saint John the Baptist, and two angels) c.1515–1516 Oil on wood, 141 x 108 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacrificio di Isacco (The Sacrifice of Isaac) c.1529–1530 Oil on poplar wood, 213 x 159 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Compare: Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacrificio di Isacco c.1527 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacrificio…