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 6 of a 10-part series on Italian Paintings:
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| c1446-47 Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi tempera and gold leaf on wood panel 75.5 x 52.3 cm (painted surface) The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1447 Saint Bernard's Vision of the Virgin by Fra Filippo Lippi egg tempera on wood panel 94.3 x 106 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| c1447-65 Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera and gold on wood 27.9 x 20 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1448-52 Assumption of the Virgin by Sano di Pietro tempera on wood 32 x 47 cm Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany |
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| 1448-52 Marriage of the Virgin by Sano di Pietro tempera on wood 32 x 46 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| 1448-52 Return of the Virgin by Sano di Pietro tempera on wood 30 x 46 cm Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Germany |
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| 1448-52 The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple of Jerusalem by Sano di Pietro tempera on wood 32 x 46 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| c1448-60 Madonna and Child by Workshop of Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 54.9 x 35.9 cm (painted surface) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1449 The Triumph of Fame by the younger brother of Masaccio tempera, silver, and gold on wood panel 62.5 cm diameter Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1450 Triptych (The Virgin and Child; Saint Peter: Saint Bernardine of Siena) by School of Francesco d'Antonio da Viterbo tempera and gold on poplar wood panels 127 x 53 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| 1450-53 The Annunciation by Fra Filippo Lippi egg tempera on wood panel 68.6 x 152.7 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| c1450-53 Seven Saints by Fra Fillippo Lippi egg tempera on wood panel 68 x 152.8 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1450-60 Saint Bernardino by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 24.1 x 22.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1450-60 The Birth and Naming of Saint John the Baptist by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera and gold on wood 20.6 x 42.9 cm (painted surface) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1450-81 Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, John the Baptist, Bernardino and Bartholomew by Sano di Pietro gold leaf and tempera on panel 93.5 x 52.2 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
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| c1450 Madonna and Child Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 33.3 x 22.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1450 Saint Peter Martyr Healing the Leg of a Young Man by Antonio Vivarini tempera and gold on wood 53 x 33.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1450 The Exultation of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera on wood, gold ground 48.6 x 36.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1450s The Adoration of the Shepherds by Andrea Mantegna tempera on canvas, transferred from wood 37.8 x 53.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1450s Saint Francis by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 24.1 x 22.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1450s Madonna and Child by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 12.7 cm diameter (painted surface) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1454 Madonna and Child with Seraphim and Cherubim by Andrea Mantegna tempera and gold on wood 44.1 x 28.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1454 Madonna and Child with Saints Giovanni di Paolo tempera on wood, gold ground (see sizes in Notes) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1455 Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera on wood, gold ground 179.4 x 131.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1455-60 The Annunciation to Zacharias by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera and gold on wood 75.9 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1458 Pair of Panels from a Triptych: The Archangel Michael and St. Anthony Abbot tempera on wood panel 81.3 x 29.8 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1458-61 Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels by Niccolò Alunno (Niccolò di Liberatore) tempera and gold on wood 120.3 x 68.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1459 The Adoration in the Forest by Fra Filippo Lippi oil on poplar wood panel 129.5 x 118.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| c1460-65 Madonna and Child by Filippo Lippi medium? on poplar wood 76.2 x 54.6 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| c1460-70 Saint Bernardino by Workshop of Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera and gold on wood 17.8 x 10.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1460-70 The Burial of Saint Martha by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera and gold on wood 14 x 29.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1460 Vision of St Augustine by Filippo Lippi tempera (details not given) Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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| c1460 Virgin and Child with Angels by follower of Fra Filippo Lippi tempera and gold on wood panel 95 x 53 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1460 The Adoration of the Magi by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera and gold on wood 27 x 23.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1460 Saint John the Evangelist Raises Drusiana by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera and gold on wood 23.8 x 22.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| early 1460s Madonna and Child with Saints James Major and John the Evangelist, altarpiece by Sano di Pietro tempera and gold on panel 65.4 x 143.5 Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| 1460s Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child by Giovanni Bellini tempera on wood 72.4 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1460s Totila before Saint Benedoct by Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) tempera on wood 39.4 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1460s Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Dead Child by Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) tempera on wood 39.4 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1460s The Conversion of Saint Paul by Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) tempera on wood 39.7 x 45.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1465-70 Saint Ambrose by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera on wood, gold ground 60.6 x 36.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1465-70 Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) tempera on wood, gold ground 61.9 x 39.7 cm (surface) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1465 Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Agnes by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) tempera on wood, gold ground 32.1 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1467 The Birth of the Virgin by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) tempera and oil on wood 144.8 x 96.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
