Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Pietà (The Dead Christ Mourned by Nicodemus and Two Angels) c.1500 Oil on panel, 17.5 x 33.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) L’Arcangelo Gabriele (The Archangel Gabriel) c.1430 Tempera on poplar panel, 76.6 × 57.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the knees up, a winged angel with blond hair and pale skin faces our right in profile…
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1423–1424 Tempera on panel, 148.8 x 115.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: on the Virgin’s prayerbook: virgo / [c]oncipiet / [e]t p[a]ri[et] / fili[um et vocabitur nomen eius] em[m]anuel / butirum et…
Masaccio (1401-1428) & Masolino (c.1383-c.1440) Sant’Anna Metterza (Saint Anna, the Madonna with Child and five angels) c.1424–1425 Tempera on panel, 175 x 103 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The term ‘Metterza’ comes from the Tuscan dialect and means ‘mi è terza’ (“I…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna dell’Umiltà (The Madonna of Humility) 1423–1424 Tempera on panel, 105.6 x 54.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a nude baby boy sits on a blue patterned pillow on the floor in front of a…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Cacciata di Adamo ed Eva dal paradiso terrestre (Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Earthly Paradise) c.1424–1428 (altered in 1680, and restored in 1980) Fresco, 214 x 90 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze In 1680 Cosimo III de’ Medici,…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Madonna col Bambino (The Virgin and Child) 1426 Egg tempera on wood, 134.8 x 73.5 cm National Gallery, London This was once the central panel of an altarpiece, probably a polyptych, made by Masaccio for the Carmelite church of Santa…
Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574) Tentazioni di San Gerolamo (Temptations of St. Jerome) 1541 Oil on panel, 170 x 122.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze In accordance with a literary tradition focusing on his period of solitude in the desert, St Jerome has…
Guercino (1591-1666) San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian) 1653 Oil on canvas, 253 x 169 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze Work of the Bolognese school artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, the painting depicts St Sebastian, officer of the Praetorian Guard of…
El Greco (1541-1614) San Juan Evangelista y San Francesco de Asís (St John the Evangelist and St Francis of Assisi) 1600 Oil on canvas, 110 x 86.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze