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Renaissance
The Renaissance (French for "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from ri- "again" and nascere "be born") was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more...
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The Last Supper
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the...
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The Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the...
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Ginevra de' Benci
Ginevra de' Benci (Born 1457) was a lady of the aristocratic class in 15th century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of one of only about 17 existing paintings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci....
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The Benois Madonna
Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas started by Leonardo da Vinci, as he remarked himself, in October 1478. The other one could be Madonna with the Carnation from Munich.
It is likely...
Annunciation
The painting "Annunciation" or "The Annunciation" by Leonardo da Vinci was painted, with Andrea del Verrocchio, circa 1472–1475. The wings were later extended by another artist.
The angel holds a Madonna lily, a symbol of Mary's virginity and of the...
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Battle of the Centaurs
Battle of the Centaurs is a relief done by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, around 1492. It is in the Florentine museum Casa Buonarroti.
Battle is the second known piece made by Michelangelo. It was carved in white...
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Madonna of the Steps
Madonna of the stairs (or Madonna of the steps) is a relief done by Michelangelo, created during the time he was in the school of Lorenzo de' Medici.
The first sign that Madonna of the stairs was a Michelangelo's sculputre cited of Giorgio Vasari's...
St. John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting. The original size of the work...
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Venus of Urbino
The Venus of Urbino (1538) is an oil painting by the Italian master Titian. It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It hangs in the Galleria...
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The Entombment of Christ
The Entombment of Christ (1602–1603) is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It was painted for Santa Maria in Vallicella, a church built for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, and adjacent to the buildings of the order. A copy of the...
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St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed in 1474. It is housed in the Staatliche Museen of Berlin.
The painting was put up with great ceremony in 1474 on one of the pillars in Florence's Santa Maria...
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione is an oil painting attributed to the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, circa 1514-1515.
Baldassarre Castiglione was a literary figure active at the court of Urbino in the early years of the 16th century....
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St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, circa 1501-1502. It is housed in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, Italy.
The picture represents slight variations of Perugino's motives. In this painting graceful...
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The Deposition
The Deposition (also called the Florence Pietà, the Pietà del Duomo or The Lamentation over the Dead Christ) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo. The sculpture, on which Michelangelo worked between 1547 and 1553...
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Cristo della Minerva
The Cristo della Minerva, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross, is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, finished in 1521. The work is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva,...
Hercules and Cacus
The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy.
This work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) was commissioned as a pendant to...
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Judith and Holofernes
The bronze sculpture Judith and Holofernes (1460), created by Donatello at the end of his career, can be seen in the Hall of Lilies (Sala dei Gigli), in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. A copy stands in one of the sculpture's original positions...
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The Wedding at Cana
The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana) is a massive painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter, Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The painting depicts the wedding feast at Cana, a...
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Bacchus and Ariadne
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-23) is an oil painting by Titian. It is one of a cycle of paintings on mythological subjects produced for Alfonso d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara, for the Camerino d'Alabastro – a private room in his palazzo in Ferrara...
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Doni Tondo
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the earliest of only three surviving panel paintings by the adult Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1503), and the only one to be finished. It is in the Uffizi in Florence in its original frame,...
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St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Antonello da Messina, finished in 1477-1479. It is currently housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.
One of the most famous pictures of the early Renaissance, it was...
The Last Judgment
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.
The work is massive and...
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Madonna of Bruges
The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo, of Mary with the infant Jesus.
Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious...
St. Petronius
The statue of St. Petronius (1494–1495) was created by Michelangelo out of marble. Its height is 64 cm. It is situated in the Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna. Its subject is Saint Petronius, bishop of Bologna.
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The Battle of San Romano
The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the battle of San Romano in 1432. The paintings are in tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long, and were...
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Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love (also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted around 1513–1514. The painting was commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten (so identified because his coat of arms...
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Christ Carrying the Cross
Christ Carrying the Cross is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted in the early 16th century, presumably between 1515 and 1516.
The painting resides at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.
The Entombment
The Entombment is an unfinished painting of the Entombment of Christ attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, and dated c. 1500-1501. It is in the National Gallery in London.
The chronological position of this work has...
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Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
The Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca (c. 1451). It portrays the condottiero and lord of Rimini and Fano Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, and is housed in the Musée du...
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The Conversion of Saul
The Conversion of Saul is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (c. 1542-1545). It is housed in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, in the Vatican City.
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Diana and Actaeon
Diana and Actaeon is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Titian, finished in 1556–1559, and is considered amongst Titian's greatest works. It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana meets Actaeon. In 2008–2009, the National Gallery,...
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Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain
"Portrait of Prince Philip of Spain" (1549) is a painting by Renaissance artist Titian.
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Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
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Virgin and Child
"Virgin and Child" (1663) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani.
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Leda and the Swan
Currently owned by the National Gallery in London, this painting is considered to be a 16th century copy of a lost painting of this subject by Michelangelo which he painted in 1530, in tempera.The subject of the painting is taken from Greek...
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St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian is a painting by Dutch Carravaggist artist Hendrick ter Brugghen.
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The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
"The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian" (1600) is a painting by Joachim Wtewael.
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St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata
St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is a painting created by Giotto di Bondone in 1300.
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Coronation of the Virgin
The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting created by Fra Angelico in 1432.
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The Allegory of the Liberal Arts
The Allegory of the Liberal Arts is a painting created by Sandro Botticelli in 1485.
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St Michael slaying the devil
St. Michael slaying the devil is a painting created by Raphael in 1518.
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The Coronation of the Virgin
The Coronation of the Virgin is a painting created by Tintoretto in 1564.
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Goblet decorated with an allegorical procession
Goblet decorated with an allegorical procession is a chalice created by Angelo Barovier between 1480 and 1500.
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Mars (sign of the Ram)
 Mars (sign of the Ram) is a tapestry created by Guillame Dermoyen in 1533.
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Tapestry depicting scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Tapestry depicting scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses is a tapestry created by Hans Karcher in 1545.
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Masse
Masse is a mace created by goldsmith, Jean Dujardin, in 1585.
Dish with "rustic figulines"
Dish with "rustic figulines" is a dish created by Bernard Palissy between late 16th and early 17th century.
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Altarpiece of Ober-St. Veit
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