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Raphael, The Alba Madonna, Italian, 1483 – 1520, c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Raphael
The Alba Madonna, c. 1510
Oil on panel transferred to canvas, diameter 94.5 cm (37 3/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
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Giorgio Vasari with drawings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, and Raffaellino del Garbo, Page from “Libro de’ Disegni”, Italian, 1466 – 1524, Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework by Vasari after 1524., album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons’ Permanent Fund
Giorgio Vasari with drawings by Filippino Lippi, Botticelli, and Raffaellino del Garbo
Page from “Libro de’ disegni,” sheets probably 1480–1504, mounting and framework by Vasari after 1524
Album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper, 56.7 x 45.7 cm (22 5/16 x 18 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Woodner Collection, Patron’s Permanent Fund
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Adoration of the Magi, c.1473, showing Lorenzo de Medici, Pico della Mirandola (in red cap), Cosimo de Medici (in front of the child), Piero de Medici (red cape), Giovanni de Medici (in white), Giuliano de Medici (black cape), with self portrait of Botticelli (far right)
Sandro Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi, c. 1473
Tempera on panel, 111 x 134 cm (43 7/10 x 52 4/5 in.)
Uffizi, Florence
Alfredo Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY -
Self portrait.
Perugino
Self-portrait (detail from a fresco decoration), c. 1500
Collegio del Cambio, Perugia
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Felice Antonio Casone, Lavinia Fontana, 1552-1614, Bolognese Painter [obverse], Italian, 1559 – 1634, 1611, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Felice Antonio Casone
Lavinia Fontana, (1552–1614), Bolognese Painter [obverse]; Lavinia Fontana Painting [reverse], 1611
Bronze, diameter 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
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Benedetto da Maiano, Saint John the Baptist, Italian, 1442 – 1497, c. 1480, painted terracotta, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Benedetto da Maiano
Saint John the Baptist, c. 1480
Painted terra-cotta, 48.9 x 52 x 26 cm (19 1/4 x 20 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Andrew W. Mellon Collection
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Lorenzo di Credi, Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate, Italian, c. 1457/1459 – 1536, 1475/1480, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Lorenzo di Credi
Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate, 1475/80
Oil on panel, 16.5 x 13.4 cm (6 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
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Giambologna
Rape of the Sabine Women, 1582
Marble
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
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Giambologna
Sketch model for a river god, c. 1580
Terracotta, 31 x 39.4 x 25 cm (22 1/5 x 15 1/2 x 9 4/5 in.)
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Paduan, Possibly Andrea Briosco, called Riccio, Studies for Small Bronzes with Classical Motifs, Italian, 1470 – 1532, 1490/1495, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner
Filippino Lippi
Designs for Small Bronzes, 1490/95
Pen and brown ink on laid paper, 16.6 x 25 cm (6 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Woodner Collections
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Self-portrait. Formerly known as Portrait of Gaston de Foix. Oil on canvas, 91 x 123 cm. INV659. Photo: Thierry Le Mage.
Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
Self-portrait, formerly known as Portrait of Gaston de Foix, c. 1529
Oil on canvas, 91 x 123 cm (35 13/16 x 48 7/16 in.)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY -
Seated man with bare legs, dressed in a shirt. Study for the Madonna of Alba. Red chalk on white paper, 38.5 x 25.0 cm. Inv.PL.457 Photo: Jacques Quecq d’Henripret.
Raphael
Seated man with bare legs, dressed in a shirt, study for the Alba Madonna, 1511
Red chalk on white paper, 38.5 x 25.0 cm (15 1/8 x 9 5/6 in.)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY -
Enea Vico
The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli, 1550s
Engraving, 30.6 x 47.9 cm (12 1/6 x 18 7/8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis, 1976.611 -
School of Filippino Lippi
Young Man (Youth Seated on a Stool), c. 1500
Silverpoint heightened with white on paper with an ochre-colored preparation, 22.2 x 16.8 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harriet Otis Cruft Fund -
Baccio Baldini, Mercury, c.1465
Attributed to Baccio Baldini
Mercury, from “The Planets,” c. 1465
Engraving on paper, 32.4 x 21.8 cm (12 4/5 x 8 3/5 in.)
British Museum, London
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AN0228753001 Benvenuto Cellini;
Benvenuto Cellini
Design for an emblem for the Accademia del Disegno, c. 1562
Pen and brown wash, 33 x 21.8 cm (13 x 8 9/16 in.)
British Museum, London
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Leon Battista Alberti
Self-portrait, c. 1435
Bronze, 20.1 x 13.6 cm (7 15/16 x 5 5/168 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
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After Leonardo da Vinci
Fourth Knot, c. 1490/1500
Engraving (the five parts of the knot are cut out from the sheet and trimmed to the image), diameter 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Rosenwald Collection
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Niccolò della Casa
Portrait of Bandinelli, c. 1540–5
Engraving, 29.2 x 22 cm (11 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
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AN0006738001 Michelangelo;
Michelangelo
Drawings for a recumbent statue, c. 1525
Pen and ink, 13.7 x 20.9 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
British Museum, London
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Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, 1532
Black chalk, partly stippled, 41.1 x 29.2 cm (16 3/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
British Museum, London
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Title page from Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori . . . (Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors . . . )
Published Florence, 1550
Library, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, David K. E. Bruce Fund
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Title page from Leon Battista Alberti, De Pictura (On Painting)
Published Basel, 1540
Library, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, David K. E. Bruce Fund
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Title page from Due Lezzioni di M. Benedetto Varchi (Two Lessons of M. Benedict Varchi)
Published Florence, 1549
Library, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, J. Paul Getty Fund in honor of Franklin Murphy
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The Monument to the Four Crowned Martyrs (Quattro Santi Coronati), detail of the relief with the construction, tool- and woodworkers. 1415.
Nanni di Banco
The monument to the Four Crowned Martyrs (Quattro Santi Coronati), detail of the relief, 1415
Marble
Orsanmichele, Florence
Alinari/Art Resource, NY -
Franciabigio
Self-Portrait, c. 1516
Painting on wood, 57.8 x 44.4 cm (22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House, New York, Samuel H. Kress Collection -
Designed by Johannes Stradanus
Lorenzo de’ Medici in the Sculpture Garden, 1571
Tapestry, 425 x 455 cm (167 5/16 x 179 1/8 in.)
Museo Nazionnale di San Marco, Pisa
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Self-portrait. Ca. 1560. Oil on canvas, 96 x 75 cm. Inv. 163. Photo: Joerg P. Anders.
Titian
Self-portrait, c. 1560
Oil on canvas, 96 x 75 cm (37.8 x 29.5 in.)
bpk, Berlin/Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany/Joerg P. Anders/Art Resource, NY -
Self-portrait of sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. Detail from the Gate of Paradise, 1424-1452.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Self-portrait, detail from the east Baptistery doors (The Gates of Paradise), 1424–52
Bronze, diameter approx. 5.8 cm (2 3/10 in.)
Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY -
(after Francesco Rosselli): The “Catena Map” with view of Florence. ca. 1500-1510. Woodcut in 8 blocks. Inv. 899-100. Photo: Joerg P. Anders. This is the only complete print in existence. The chain around the border gives the map its name.
Lucantonio degli Uberti, after Francesco Rosselli
The “Catena Map” with view of Florence, c. 1500–1510
Woodcut in 8 blocks
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Inv. 899–100
bpk, Berlin/Joerg P. Anders/Art Resource, NY -
Daniele da Volterra
Portrait of Michelangelo, c. 1545
Oil on panel, 88.3 x 64.1 cm (34 3/4 x 25 1/4 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Artisans in their workshops. From the manuscript “De Sphaera”, fol. 12r. Italy, ca. 1470.
Artisans in their workshops, c. 1470
From the manuscript “De Sphaera,” fol. 12 recto
Illumination on vellum
Biblioteca Estense, Modena
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Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and several sketches. Study for the Madonna of Alba. 42.2 x 27.3 cm. Inv. Pl. 456. Photo: Quecq d’Henripret.
Raphael
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and several sketches, study for the Alba Madonna, 1511
Red chalk, pen and ink on white paper, 42.2 x 27.3 cm (16 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille
Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY -
Raphael (self-portrait) and his fencing master. Oil on canvas (1518), 99 x 83 cm. Inv. 614.
Raphael
Raphael (self-portrait) and His Fencing Master, c. 1518
Oil on canvas, 99 x 83 cm (39 x 32 7/10 in.)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY -
The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli (L’Accademia di Baccio Bandinelli). Engraving, 1531.
Agostino dei Musi
The Academy of Baccio Bandinelli (L’Accademia di Baccio Bandinelli) 1531
Engraving, 27.3 x 29.9 cm (10 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
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Duccio
Conjectural reconstruction of the Maestà (Madonna Enthroned). (front), 1311
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena
Digital reconstruction by Lew Minter -
Duccio
Conjectural reconstruction of the Maestà (Madonna Enthroned). (back), 1311
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Siena
Digital reconstruction by Lew Minter -
Allegory of Sculpture. Hexagonal relief from Campanile of the Cathedral, Florence.
Attributed to Andrea Pisano
Allegory of Sculpture, c. 1343–8
Hexagonal marble relief from Campanile of the Cathedral, Florence
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
Scala/Art Resource, NY -
Painter at work. Hexagonal relief from the Campanile of the Cathedral, Florence.
Attributed to Andrea Pisano
Painter at work, c. 1343–8
Hexagonal marble relief from the Campanile of the Cathedral, Florence
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
Scala/Art Resource, NY -
Giorgio Vasari
Saint Luke Painting a Portrait of the Madonna (Self-portrait), after 1565
Fresco
Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy
Scala/Art Resource, NY -
Sofonisba Anguissola
Self-portrait, Painting the Madonna, 1556
Oil on canvas, 66 x 57 cm (26 x 22 2/5 in.)
Muzeum Zamek w Lancucie, Lancut, Poland
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY