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:
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| c1340 Madonna and Child by Maso di Banco tempera on wood, gold ground 81.5 x 49.2 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| 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 |
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| 1340 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels by Pietro Lorenzetti tempera on panel 145 x 122 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence |
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| 1340s Saint Julian by Taddeo Gaddi tempera on wood, gold ground 52.7 x 35.2 cm (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1342 Presentation of Jesus in the Temple by Ambrogio Lorenzetti tempera on panel 257 x 168 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| c1350 The Nativity by Puccio di Simone tempera on wood, gold ground 20 x 38.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 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 |
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| 1350-1375 The Pieta by School of the Pietà Master tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 60 x 42 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| 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 |
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| 1357-59 Saint Remigio Pietà by Giottino (Tommaso di Stefan) tempera on panel 195 x 134 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence |
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| 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 |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 1365 The Crucifixion by Andrea di Cione (Orcagna) detail |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| c1375 Saint Lucy Enthroned by Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani tempera on wood, gold ground Yale University Art Library, New Haven, CT |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
