St. Peter Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Paul is an oil painting on wood transferred to canvas (155×146 cm) by Cima da Conegliano, dating back to 1516 and kept at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
The Fortress is a tempera painting on wood (167×87 cm) by Sandro Botticelli, dated 1470 in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
The Venus of Urbino is a 1538 oil painting by the Italian master Titian. It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It hangs in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. The figure’s read more
The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael’s commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in read more
The Madonna and Child with St. Anne, also known as Sant’Anna Metterza, is a painting of c. 1424 by the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio, probably in collaboration with Masolino da Panicale. The painting is in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and measures 175 centimetres high and 103 centimetres read more
The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It changed hands several times before read more
The Double portrait of the Dukes of Urbino is a diptych, oil on panel (47×33 cm each panel) with the portraits of the couple Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, the work of Piero della Francesca dated to about 1,465 to 1,472 and in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
The Heaven’s Gate is the eastern gate of the Baptistery in Florence, the main one located in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. It has long been suggested that Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under read more
The Sistine Chapel ( Italian: Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel read more