The works featured in these posts date from before and leading up to the Italian Renaissance. Renaissance paintings of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers. The painters of Renaissance Italy, although often attached to particular courts and with loyalties to particular towns, Italy, often occupying a diplomatic status and disseminating artistic and philosophical ideas
The Italian Renaissance: meaning “rebirth,” the Renaissance refers to the art of Europe made between 1300–1600:
Proto-Renaissance 1300s, otherwise known as the Trecento: “300s” in Italian, referring to the 1300s.
Early Renaissance otherwise known as Quattrocento: “400s” in Italian, referring to the 1400s, High Renaissance 1500s otherwise known as the Cinquecento: “500s” in Italian or 1500s.
This is part 5 of a 10-part series on Italian Paintings:
c1435 The Presentation of Christ in the Temple by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
tempera and gold on wood 38.7 x 43.8 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1435 The Annunciation by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 73 x 41 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1435 Saints Matthew and Francis by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
tempera on wood, gold ground 134.3 x 85.1 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1435 Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness by Osservanza Master, Siena
tempera and gold on wood panel 47 x 33.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1437 The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels, Saint Frediano and Saint Augustine, known as Pala Barbadori by Filippo Lippi
oil on panel 208 x 244 cm
Louvre, ParisThe Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels...
by Filippo Lippi
detailThe Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels...
by Filippo Lippi
detailThe Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels...
by Filippo Lippi
detailThe Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels...
by Filippo Lippi
detailThe Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels...
by Filippo Lippi
detail1439-47 The Coronation of the Virgin by Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on panel 200 x 287 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence1440-45 The Adoration of the Christ Child by Workshop of Bicci di Lorenzo
tempera on poplar panel 47 x 35 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCc1440-60 The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on poplar wood panel 137.3 cm diameter
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCc1440 The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)
tempera transferred to canvas, laid down on wood, gold ground 45 x 50.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1440 The Annunciation by Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on poplar wood panel left panel 63.8 x 25.1 cm right panel 63.8 x 25.4 cm
The Frick Collection, New York Cityc1440 Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on poplar wood panel 79 x 51.1 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC1440s Saint Jerome by Workshop of Antonio Vivarini
tempera on wood, gold ground 26 x 16.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1440s Madonna of Mercy by Sano di Pietro
(details not found)
Private CollectionLate 1440s Madonna and Child with Six Saints by Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)
tempera on wood, gold ground 22.5 x 20.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1440s Madonna and Child by Jacopo Bellini
tempera on wood, gold ground 77.5 x 55.2 cm
(painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1440s Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors by Fra Filippo Lipp alterpiece
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York1440s Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors by Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on wood, gold ground1440s Saint Lawrence Enthroned with Saints and Donors by Fra Filippo Lippi
tempera on wood, gold groundc1443 Annunciation by Filippo Lippi
oil on poplar wood 203 x 162 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich1445 Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
tempera and gold on canvas, transferred from wood
44.5 x 38.4 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1445-47 Altarpiece of St Lucia de' Magnoli by Domenico Veneziano
fresco transferred to canvas 209 x 216 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence1445-50 Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus
tempera on wood panel 40 x 69.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCc1445 The Nativity by Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop
oil and tempera? on wood panel 23.2 x 55.3 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCc1445 Madonna and Child with Two Angels and a Donor by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
tempera on wood, gold ground 137.8 x 81.3 cm
(painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1445 Flight into Egypt by Sano di Pietro
tempera? on panel (size not given)
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Romec1445-50 The Betrayal of Christ by Bartolomeo di Tommaso
tempera on wood 19.7 x 41 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkc1445-50 Madonna and Child with Angels by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 63.8 x 34.3 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
