Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del padiglione (Madonna of the Pavilion) c.1490 Tempera on panel, diameter 65 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano This splendid tondo by Sandro Botticelli, executed with the tip of a brush with a miniaturistic attention, proposes an apparently conventional religious…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Natività mistica (Mystic Nativity) 1500 Oil on canvas, 108.6 x 74.9 cm National Gallery, London The infant Christ reaches up towards the Virgin Mary, oblivious of his visitors – the Three Kings on the left and the shepherds on…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Crocifissione mistica (Mystic Crucifixion) c.1500 Tempera and oil on canvas (transferred from panel), 72.4 x 51.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA In the 1490s, Florence came under the sway of the magnetic Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola. The century had…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione di Cestello (Cestello Annunciation) 1489–1490 Tempera on wood, 150 x 156 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Inscriptions: SPIRITUS SANCTUS SUPERVENIET IN TE ET VIRTUS ALTISSIMI OBUMBRABIT TIBI (Luca 1, 35) ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI FIAT MICHI SECUNDUM VERBUM TUUM…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1492 Tempera on panel, 17.8 × 26.8 cm The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) L’Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1485 Tempera and gold on wood, 19.1 x 31.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the most celebrated paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, this depiction of the Annunciation unfolds in a classicizing…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo morto sostenuto dagli angeli (Dead Christ Supported by Three Angels) c.1476 Oil on panel, 145 x 85 cm Museo Correr, Venezia Nothing is known about this masterpiece before it became part of the Teodoro Correr collection;…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Madonna Salting (The Virgin and Child) c.1460–1469 Oil on wood, 43.2 x 34.3 cm National Gallery, London The Virgin Mary glances down at her baby son, Christ, who clutches a pomegranate in his tiny fist. The fruit,…
Antonello da Messina (c.1430-1479) Cristo morto sostenuto da un angelo (Dead Christ Supported by an Angel) 1475–1476 Mixed method on panel, 74 x 51 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Antonello da Messina was trained in Naples, the Italian city where the…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1804–1806 Marble, 242.6 x 191.8 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When Countess Valeria Tarnowska first met the sculptor Antonio Canova, on December…