El Greco (1541-1614) Adoración del Nombre de Jesús (The Adoration of the Name of Jesus) late 1570s Oil and egg tempera on pine, 55.1 × 33.8 cm National Gallery, London This picture is closely related to a larger work of the…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Madonna col Bambino, San Domenico e Sant’Aurea, Patriarchi e Profeti (The Virgin and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Aurea, and Patriarchs and Prophets) c.1312–1315 Egg tempera on wood, 61.4 x 39.3 cm National Gallery, London Duccio was…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Tentazione sul monte (The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain) 1308–1311 Tempera on poplar panel, 43.2 x 46 cm Frick Collection, New York This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier) of the Maestà altarpiece made…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Annunciazione (The Annunciation) c.1307–1311 Egg tempera on wood, 44.5 × 45.8 cm National Gallery, London This panel was the first in a series of scenes of the infancy of Christ on the front of the predella (lowest part)…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) L’Assunzione della Vergine (The Assumption of the Virgin) c.1475–1476 Tempera on wood, 228.6 × 377.2 cm National Gallery, London Heaven and earth are united in this vast, dramatic scene. A dome-shaped vault has opened up in the sky to…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Scene della vita di san Girolamo (Scenes from the Life of Saint Jerome) c.1490 Tempera on poplar, 235 × 258 cm National Gallery, London Francesco Botticini’s S. Gerolamo Altarpiece is named after Saint Jerome (who appears at its centre) and…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) Pala di San Gerolamo (S. Gerolamo Altarpiece) c.1490 Tempera on poplar, 235 × 258 cm National Gallery, London The S. Gerolamo Altarpiece, named after the saint prominently depicted at its centre and the church where it originally stood, is…
Botticini, Francesco (1446-1498) San Girolamo in penitenza con santi e donatori (Saint Jerome in Penitence with Saints and Donors) c.1490 Tempera on poplar, 235 × 258 cm National Gallery, London This is the main panel of the S. Gerolamo Altarpiece, one of…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 87.5 × 69.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Inscribed top left on frame: JUN: DIE 9 ANNO 1290; top right on frame: QUOMODO SEDET SOLA CIVITAS!; and bottom of frame: MART:…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le bosquet sacré, bien-aimé des arts et des muses (The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses) 1884–1889 Oil on canvas, 93 × 231 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The indeterminately mythological figures that…