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The Italian 1400s and 1500s

Italian Renaissance

Tempera and oil from Renaissance Italy. Botticelli's clean line, Crivelli's jewelled saints, Bellini's hushed light, Mantegna's hard clarity. Gold grounds, clear colour and faces that have outlasted five centuries.

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The Last Communion of Saint Jerome Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), early 1490s Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440 Portrait of a Young Man Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura), 1470s Saint Christopher and the Infant Christ Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) The Annunciation Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), ca. 1490 Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors Fra Filippo Lippi, 1440s Madonna and Child with Seraphim and Cherubim Andrea Mantegna, ca. 1454 The Crucifixion Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro), ca. 1420–23 The Meditation on the Passion Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490 Male Saint Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1447–1469 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1447–1469 Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement Fra Filippo Lippi, ca. 1440 The Annunciation Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna Adoring the Child Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), ca. 1490–95 Madonna and Child Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1510 Madonna and Child Filippino Lippi, ca. 1483–84 Madonna and Child Jacopo Bellini, probably 1440s Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) Self-Portrait Anton Raphael Mengs, 1776 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), ca. 1504