Monday, 27 October 2025

Italian Paintings 1200s-1600 part 4

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 4 of a 10-part series on Italian Paintings:


1400 St. Louis of Toulouse by School of Master of the Madonna del Parto
tempera on wood  panel 51 x 22 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400 Saint Francis of Assisi by School of Master of the Madonna del Parto
tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 51 x 22 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1410 Diptych Workshop of Paolo di Giovanni Fei
tempera on wood, gold ground 40.3 x x 16.5 cm each (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1400-1450 The Virgin and Child by Anonymous, School of Italy
tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 34 x 26 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Christ in the tomb (between the Virgin, Saint John and Saint Madeleine surrounded by symbols and instruments of the Passion) by School of the Johnson Triptych Master
tempera on poplar wood panel 45 x 32 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Flagellation by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel 14 x 14 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Crucifixion by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel (size not given)
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Lamentation by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel 14 x 14 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Ascension by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel14 x 14 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Resurrection by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel 14 x 14 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 Scenes from the Life of Christ: Noli me Tangere by School of Mariotto de Nardo
 tempera on poplar wood panel 14 x 14 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The "Navicella" by School of Italy, after Antoniazzo Romano Giotto de Bondone
tempera on wood transferred to canvas 190 x 179 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The Last Supper by School of Mariotto di Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel 15 x 15 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian between Saint Bartholomew and a holy Bishop Master by School of the Epiphany of Fiesole
tempera on poplar wood panel 55 x 33 cm (painted surface)
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The new Emperor Decius questions Saint Lawrence about Philip's treasures and gives him three days to find them by School of Mariotto de Nardo
tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 18 x 37 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The Virgin and Child with eight saints: Jerome, Antoine de Padoue, Bernardin de Siena, Jean-Baptiste, Verdiana, Louis de Toulouse, Pierre, François Master by School of the Epiphany of Fiesole
 tempera on poplar wood 64 x 48 cm
Louvre, Paris

1400-1500 The Virgin in Glory with the Apostles by School of Mariotto di Nardo
tempera on poplar wood panel 80 x 52 cm
Louvre, Paris

c1400 The Crucifixion by Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)
tempera on wood, gold ground 86 x 52.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1400 Virgin and Child by Taddeo di Bartolo
tempera on poplar panel, gold ground 104 x 69 cm
Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

before 1402 The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin attributed to Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
 tempera on canvas 239.4 x 153 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1406-07 Last Judgment in an Initial C by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera and gold on parchment 31.3 x 26.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1406-10 The Nativity by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 22.2 x 3.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1406 The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
tempera on wood, gold ground 85.4 x 36.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1408-10 Abraham by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 58.1 x 42.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1408-10 David by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 56.8 x 43.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1408-10 Moses by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 57.5 x 44.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1408-10 Noah by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)
tempera on wood, gold ground 58.1 x 43.2 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1410 Saint Ursula and Her Maidens by Niccolò di Pietro
tempera and gold on wood 94 x 78.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1410 Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs by Master of 1416
tempera on wood 53.7 x 56.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1410 A Contest between the Shepherds Alcesto and Acaten by Master of 1416
tempera on wood 53.7 x 56.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

before 1414-15 An Episode from the Life of Saint Giovanni Gualberto ttributed to Niccolò di Pietro Gerini 
tempera on wood, gold ground 146.7 x 72.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1420 Madonna and Child with Angels by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano
tempera on wood panel, gold ground 77.8 x 56.5 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1420-23 The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico (guido de Pirtro)
tempera on wood, gold ground 63.8 x 48.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1420-30 Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri)
tempera and gold on wood panel 112.1 x 106 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

late 1420s Triptych with the Virgin and Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Ansanus by Filippo Lippi
 (details not given)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1423 Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano
tempera on wood 300 x 283 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

1423 Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano detail

1424-25 Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale
tempera on panel 175 x 103 cm
Uffizi Gallery, Florence

c1425-30 Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes by Donato de' Bardi
tempera on wood, gold ground central panel 58.7 x 32.4 wings 59.1 x 14 cm (painted sufaces)
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1425-67 Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Jerome, Peter Martyr, and Bernardino and Four Angels by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)
tempera on wood, gold ground 62.9 x 47.3 cm (painted surface)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1425 Saint Alexander by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)
tempera on wood, gold ground 15.9 x 15.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

before 1427 Madonna and Child with Angels by Gentile da Fabriano (Gentile di Niccolò di Giovanni di Massio)
tempera on wood, traces of gold ground 85.7 x 50.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

before 1430 Saint John the Baptist by Niccolo di Pietro Veneziano
 paint on wood panel 77 x 28.9 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI

1430 Saint Jacques (Saint James) by Anonymous, School of Italy
tempera on poplar wood panel
(the right panel of a small portable triptych) 52 x 18 cm
Louvre, Paris

1430-39 The funeral of Saint Francis by School of Bicci di Lorenzo
tempera and gold on poplar wood panel 34 x 34 cm
Louvre, Paris

c1430 The Marriage of the Virgin
tempera and gold on wood panel 65.1 x 47.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1433-35 Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries by Bicci di Lorenzo
tempera and gold on wood 30.5 x 56.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York