Italian Renaissance Learning Resources

Attributed to Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Baby, 1540–49
Oil on panel, 33.5 x 26 cm (13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Jacopo da Pontormo
Maria Salviati and Guilia de’ Medici, c. 1538
Oil on panel, 88 x 71.3 cm (34 5/8 x 28 1/16 in.)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Raphael
Bindo Altoviti, c. 1515
Oil on panel, 59.7 x 43.8 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Ambrogio de Predis
Bianca Maria Sforza, probably 1493
Oil on panel, 51 x 32.5 cm (20 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Widener Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Perugino
Portrait of Lorenzo di Credi, 1488
Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 44 x 30.5 cm (17 5/16 x 12 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Widener Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Titian
Ranuccio Farnese, 1542
Oil on canvas, 89.7 x 73.6 cm (35 5/16 x 29 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Titian
Portrait of a Friend of Titian (Portrait of a Gentleman), c. 1550
Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 72.4 cm (35 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Sandro Botticelli
Unknown Man, possibly the artist or his brother, with medal of Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464), 1474–5
Tempera on panel, 57.5 x 44 cm (22 3/5 x 17 3/10 in.)
Uffizi, Florence
Alfredo Dagli Orti/The Art Archive at Art Resource, NY

Desiderio da Settignano
The Christ Child (?), c. 1460
Marble, 30.5 x 26.5 x 16.3 cm (12 x 10 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Matteo de’ Pasti
Isotta degli Atti, Mistress, then Wife of Sigismondo Malatesta [obverse]; Closed Book [reverse], 1446
Bronze, diameter 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Florentine, first half of 16th century
Cassone made for Strozzi family
Walnut and poplar, 191.5 x 64.2 x 69.7 cm (75 3/8 x 25 1/4 x 27 7/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Widener Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Bernardino Licinio
Portrait of a Woman Holding her Husband’s Portrait, c. 1530s
Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 91.5 cm (30 1/2 x 36 in.)
Castello Sforzesco, Milan
Alinari/Art Resource, NY

Jacopo da Pontormo
Two Men with a Passage from Cicero’s “On Friendship,” c. 1524
Oil on panel, 88.2 x 68 cm (34 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini/Galleria di Palazzo Cini, Venice

After Matteo de’ Pasti
Medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta San Francesco at Rimini [reverse], 1450
Bronze, diameter 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Matteo de’ Pasti
Isotta degli Atti, Mistress, then Wife of Sigismondo Malatesta [obverse]; The Malatesta Elephant [reverse], 1446
Bronze, diameter 8.4 cm (3 5/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Bertoldo di Giovanni
The Pazzi Conspiracy Medal: Lorenzo de’ Medici, il Magnifico (1449–92) [obverse]; The Murder of Giuliano I de’ Medici [reverse], 1478
Bronze, diameter 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Leonardo da Vinci
Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani), c. 1490
Oil on panel, 54.8 x 40.3 cm (21 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Muzeum Czartoryskich, Krakow
Scala/Art Resource, NY

Lorenzo Lotto
Marsilio Cassotti and His Bride, Faustina, 1523
Oil on canvas, 71 x 84 cm (27 15/16 x 33 1/16 in.)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

Apollonio di Giovanni and Marco del Buono di Marco
Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, c. 1464–5
Tempera on panel, 52.5 x 185.5 cm (20 11/16 x 73 1/16 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury

Apollonio di Giovanni and workshop
Journey of the Queen of Sheba, c. 1464–5
Tempera on panel, 43.2 x 176.2 cm (17 x 69 3/8 in.)
Birmingham Museum of Art, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Ercole de’ Roberti

Giovanni II Bentivoglio, c. 1474/77

Tempera on panel, 54 x 38.1 cm (21 1/4 x 15 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Michelangelo
Christ on the Cross, 1536–41
Drawing in black chalk, 36.8 x 26.8 cm (14 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.)
British Museum, London
© Trustees of the British Museum

Ercole de’ Roberti
Ginevra Bentivoglio, c. 1474/77
Tempera on panel, 53.7 x 38.7 cm (21 1/8 x 15 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse], c. 1474/78
Oil on panel, 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra de’ Benci [reverse], c. 1474/78
Oil on panel, 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Sandro Botticelli
Giuliano de’ Medici, c. 1478/80
Tempera on panel, 75.5 x 52.5 cm (29 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Filippino Lippi
Tobias and the Angel, c. 1475/80
Oil and tempera (?) on panel, 32.7 x 23.5 cm (12 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Florentine 15th or 16th century, probably after a model by Andrea del Verrocchio and Orsino Benintendi
Lorenzo de’ Medici, 1478/1521
Painted terra-cotta, 65.8 x 59.1 x 32.7 cm (25 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra de’ Benci [reverse], detail of original inscription VIRTU ET HONOR, c. 1474/78
Reflectogram of tempera on panel, overall 38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9/16 in.)
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
Triumph of Chastity [obverse], c. 1450–60
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 58.4 x 59.1 cm (23 x 23 1/4 in.)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni
Putti [reverse of Triumph of Chastity], c. 1450–60
Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 58.4 x 59.1 cm (23 x 23 1/4 in.)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Sofonisba Anguissola
Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family, early 1580s
Oil on softwood panel, diameter 40 cm (15 3/4 in.)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Kress Collection

Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso
The Story of Esther, 1460–70
Tempera and gold on wood, 44.5 x 140.7 cm (17 1/2 x 55 3/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Marco del Buono Giamberti and Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso
Cassone with The Conquest of Trebizond, 1460s
Tempera, gold, and silver on wood, distemper on inner lid, 100.3 x 195.6 x 83.5 cm (39 1/2 x 77 x 32 7/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi (Lo Scheggia)
Interior cassone panel: Reclining young man, c. 1450
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY

Antonio Rossellino
The Young Saint John the Baptist, c. 1470
Marble, 34.7 x 29.8 x 16.1 cm (13 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Pisanello
John VIII Palaeologus (1392–1448), Emperor of Constantinople (1425) [obverse], 1438
Lead, trial cast, diameter 10.38 cm (4 1/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection
Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art

Sandro Botticelli
Young Woman (Simonetta Vespucci?) in Mythological Guise, c. 1480
Tempera on panel, 81.5 x 54.2 cm (32 1/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main
The Bridgeman Art Library

Andrea della Robbia
Swaddled child, created c. 1463–6, installed 1487
Glazed terracotta tondo
Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence
Scala/Art Resource, NY

Leon Battista Alberti
Façade, Tempio Malatestiano, c. 1450
Rimini, Italy
Scala/Art Resource, NY

Jacopo da Pontormo
Childbirth bowl (tafferia da parto) with The Naming of John the Baptist [interior] and Della Casa and Tornaquinci Arms [exterior], 1526–7
Oil on wood, diameter 54 cm (21 1/4 in.)
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Alinari/Art Resource, NY