Friday, 24 October 2025

Italian Paintings 1200s-1600 part 3

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 3 of a 10-part series on Italian Paintings:


c1337-39 The Assumption of the Virgin by Bernardo Daddi
tempera on wood panel, gold ground 108 x 142.6 (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1340 The Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti
tempera and gold on wood 35.9 x 25.7 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1340 Saint Anthony of Padua by Maso di Banco
tempera on wood, gold ground 74.3 x 40.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1340 Madonna and Child by Maso di Banco
tempera on wood, gold ground 81.5 x 49.2 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

c1340 Madonna and Child by Barna da Siena
tempera on wood, gold ground 50.5 x 21.9 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1340 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels by Pietro Lorenzetti
tempera on panel 145 x 122 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

1340s Saint Julian by Taddeo Gaddi
tempera on wood, gold ground 52.7 x 35.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1342 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti
tempera on panel 257 x 168 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

c1345 Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels by Bernado Daddi
tempera on panel 50.2 x 24.3 cm (painted surface)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

before 1348 Saint Reparata being prepared for Execution by Bernardo Daddi
tempera on wood panel, gold ground 24.4 x 34.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1350 The Nativity by Puccio di Simone
tempera on wood, gold ground 20 x 38.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1350 Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels by Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo)
tempera on wood, gold ground 50.2 x 25.7 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1350-1375 The Pieta by School of the Pietà Master
tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 60 x 42 cm
Louvre, Paris

1354 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels, and Saints Anthony Abbot and Venantius by Puccio di Simone and Allegretto Nuzi
tempera on panel 108 x 57.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1357-59 Saint Remigio Pietà by Giottino (Tommaso di Stefan)
tempera on panel 195 x 134 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna)
tempera on wood, gold ground 137.5 x 81.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail

c1365 Madonna and Child with Donors by Giovanni da Milano
tempera on wood, gold ground 68.9 x 144.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1366-96 Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani
 tempera on wood, gold ground 24.1 x 38-7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1366-96  Saint Lucy Giving Alms by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristian
tempera on wood, gold ground 25.4 x 38.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1366-96 Saint Lucy before Paschasius by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani
tempera on wood, gold ground 24.1 x 38.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1366-96 Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristian
tempera on wood, gold ground 24.8 x 38.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1375 Saint Lucy Enthroned by Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani
tempera on wood, gold ground
Yale University Art Library, New Haven, CT

1370 Saint John the Evangelist raises Satheus to Life by Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi)
tempera on wood panel, gold ground 34.9 x 39.4 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1370 Saint John the Evangelist Causes a Pagan Temple to Collapse by Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi)
tempera on wood, gold ground 35.9 x 38.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1370 Saint John the Evangelist with Acteus and Eugenius by Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi)
tempera on wood, gold ground 36.5 x 41.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


1370s Madonna and Child by Paolo di Giovanni Fei
tempera on wood, gold ground 68.6 x 42.9 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1375 Manuscript Illumination with the Birth of the Virgin in an Initial G by Don Silvestro de' Gherarducci
tempera, ink, and gold on parchment29.2 x 29.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1380-90 Manuscript Illumination with Saint Lawrence in an Initial C, from a Gradual by Don Simone Camaldolese
tempera, ink and gold on parchment 15 x 19.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1380 Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors by Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni
tempera on wood, gold ground 54 x 42.5 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1380 The Coronation of the Virgin by Niccolò di Buonaccorso
tempera on wood, gold ground 44.8 x 26.7 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1384-85 A Saint, possibly James the Greater by  Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)
tempera and gold on wood 46.4 x 13.7 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1384-85 Saint Philip by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)
tempera and gold on wood 46 x 13.7 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1385-90 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation by Paolo di Giovanni Fei
Tempera on wood, gold ground 70.8 x 43.8 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1390 The Coronation of the Virgin with Six Angels by Agnolo Gaddi
tempera on panel 61 x 79 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1394 The Coronation of the Virgin, and Saints by Giovanni di Tano Fei
tempera on wood panel, gold ground 199.1 x 193 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1395 Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and St Andrew by Taddeo di Bartolo
tempera on panel 114 x 72 cm (centre) 105 x 43 cm (each wing)
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

c1395-1400 Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) tempera on canvas, gold ground 176.5 x 120 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1395-1400 The Flagellation by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)
tempera on canvas, gold ground 176.5 x 120 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


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