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Annunciation
1439-1443
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69 1/4 x 58 1/4 in (176 x 148 cm)
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Donatello
Feast of Herod
c. 1425
Bronze with gilding
60 x 60 cm
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Donatello
David
c. 1444-46
Bronze
Height 158 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence |
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Botticelli, Sandro
The birth of Venus
c. 1485
Tempera on canvas
172.5 x 278.5 cm (67 7/8 x 109 5/8 in.)
Uffizi, Florence |
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Bellini, Giovanni
Madonna with saints
1505
Altar painting: oil on wood, transferred to canvas
402 x 273 cm (158 1/2 x 102 1/2 in.)
church of S. Zaccaria, Venice |
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| The Scrovegni Chapel, or Cappella degli Scrovegni, also known as the Arena Chapel is a church in Padua, Veneto, Italy. It contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed about 1305, that is one of the most important masterpieces of Western art |
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Dome of Florence Cathedral
Brunelleschi
begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi |
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| The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi for the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy and was built between 1445 and 1460 |
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| The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the city’s main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family |
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The Basilica di Sant'Andrea is a Renaissance church in Mantua, Lombardy (Italy).
Commissioned by Ludovico II Gonzaga, the church was begun in 1462 |
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| Lorenzo Ghiberti (born Lorenzo di Bartolo) (1378 – December 1, 1455) was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known for works in sculpture and metalworking |
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| On July 6, 1484 a child saw an image of Madonna and Child, painted on a wall of the public jail of Prato, animate itself. It was therefore decided to build a basilica on that site to celebrate the event. Lorenzo de Medici, de facto lord of the Republic of Florence, imposed a design by his favourite architect, Giuliano da Sangallo. |
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| This polychromed wood sculpture is one of the most expressive of Donatello's works. The emaciated, hollow-eyed, almost toothless figure seems to embody dramatically a mood that was only to surface at the end of the century in Florence. It is a radical departure from the classical models of his earlier work. |
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| Andrea del Verrocchio, (c. 1435 – 1488) was an Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi, but he also influenced Michelangelo. He worked in the serenely classic style of the Florentine Early Renaissance |
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| Masaccio (born Tommaso Cassai December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428), was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. His frecoes are the earliest monuments of Humanism, and introduce a plasticity previously unseen in figure painting |
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The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors is a famous fresc by the Early Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio. It is located in the church of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence.
This is the most celebrated work of Masaccio beside the frescoes in the Branacci Chapel |
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| The Camera picta ("painted chamber"), also popularly known as the Camera degli Sposi, or "bridal chamber"—is a room frescoed with illusionistic paintings by Andrea Mantegna. It was painted between 1465 and 1474, and is notable for the use of trompe l'oeil or trick the eye ceiling |
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| Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 1492) was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. He was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its serene humanism and its use of geometric forms, particularly in relation to perspective and foreshortening |
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| Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 1492) was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. He was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its serene humanism and its use of geometric forms, particularly in relation to perspective and foreshortening |
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| The Limbourg brothers, (Herman, Paul, and Johan; 1385 – 1416, were famous Dutch Renaissance minature painters. They were active in the early 15th century in France and Burgundy, working in the style known as International Gothic. They created what is certainly the best known illuminated manuscript, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry |
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| The Mérode Altarpiece is a three-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin. The piece is a hinged triptych, or three part panel. It was probably commissioned for private use, as it is small |
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Hugo van der Goes 1440 (1482 or 1483) was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Gerard David, one of the most important of the Early Netherlandish painters.
Hugo became a member of the painters guild of Ghent as a master in 1467. |
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| Jan van Eyck 1395 – 1441) was an Early Netherlandish painter and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.Jan van Eyck invented oil painting. He achieved, or perfected, new and remarkable effects using this technique. Thus, due to his early mastery of the technique, he has often been referred to as the "father of oil painting." |
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| Rogier van der Weyden or Rogier de le Pasture (1399/1400 – June 18, 1464) is, with Jan van Eyck, considered one of the greatest exponents of the school of Early Netherlandish painting. |
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Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist,
1499-1500 |
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Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper
1490 |
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Raphael
The small Cowper Madonna
c. 1505
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Raphael
The School of Athens
1509-1510 |
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| David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504. The marble statue portrays the Biblical King David in the nude |
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| The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. |
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| The Moses is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo 1513-1515 which depicts the Biblical figure Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II. |
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| San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante. |
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| The Assumption of the Virgin is a fresco by the Italian Late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio decorating the dome of the Cathedral of Parma, Italy |
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| The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as the Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St. Peter's Basilica, is located within the Vatican City |
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The Last Judgment is a fresco by Michelangelo on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It took four years to complete. Michelangelo began working on it three decades after finishing the ceiling of the chapel.
1534-1541 |
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Concert Champêtre (Pastoral Concert).
Louvre, Paris. A work which the Louvre now attributes to Titian, c. 1509. |
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The Pesaro Madonna (Italian: Pala Pesaro) (better known as the Madonna di Ca' Pesaro) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian
1519-1526 |
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Titian
Venus of Urbino
1538
Oil on canvas |
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| The Feast in the House of Levi is a 1573 painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century measuring 555 x 1280 cm |
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Tintoretto's final The Last Supper
1594 |
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| Villa Capra "La Rotonda" is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio |
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| The Deposition from the Cross is an altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo, completed in 1528. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood |
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| The Madonna of the Long Neck also known as Madonna and Child with Angels and St. Jerome, is an Italian Mannerism oil painting by the Italian painter Parmigianino in 1535, The painting remains incomplete because of Parmigianino's death in 1540 |
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Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time is a painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino.
1545, Bronzino was commissioned to create a painting which has come to be known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time. It displays the ambivalence, eroticism and obscure imagery which is characteristic of the Mannerist period |
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| The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Apocalypsis cum Figuris) is a famous series of fifteen woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer of scenes from the Book of Revelation, published in 1498 |
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| The Four Apostles is a panel painting by the German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer. It was finished in 1526, the last of his large works. |
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The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a painting by El Greco, a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. Widely considered among his finest works,
1586
oil on canvas |
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| The Hunters in the Snow (also known as The Return of the Hunters) is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. |
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Hans Holbein the Younger
He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century
Portrait of Henry VIII, c. 1536. Oil and tempera on oak |
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| Saint Peter's Square (Italian: Piazza San Pietro) is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. |
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| The Church of Saint Charles at the Four Fountains (Italian: Chiesa di San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane also called San Carlino) is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, designed by the architect Francesco Borromini (1599-1667) |
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The Ecstacy of St Teresa in the basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. By Italian baroque artist, Gianlorenzo Bernini. |
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| David is a life-size marble sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini. |
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| Detail of the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne by Annibale Carracci. |
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| Triumph of the name of Jesus and the fall of the damned. Giovanni Battista Gaulli |
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| The Calling of Saint Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio completed in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, |
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| The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603) is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It was painted for Santa Maria in Vallicella, |
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| Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, by the female painter Artemisia Gentileschi. |
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Georges de la Tour (France, Vic-sur-Seille, 1593 - 1652)
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, circa 1638-1640
Painting, Oil on canvas |
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Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
Claude Lorrain |
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| Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, oil on canvas by Nicolas Poussin, 1640 |
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Jusepe de Ribera (artist)
Spanish, 1591 - 1652
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, 1634
oil on canvas |
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The Water Carrier of Seville
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660 Spanish)
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| Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, |
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| The Elevation of the Cross (also called The Raising of the Cross) is a triptych painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1610-1611. |
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The Presentation of Her Portrait to Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens |
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599-London, 1641)
Charles I at the Hunt
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