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 Girl with a Pearl or Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting on canvas (44,5à-39 cm) by Jan Vermeer, dating from about 1665 to 1666 and stored in the Mauritshuis is one of the paintings more known artist, thanks to a novel and a 2003 film that 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
Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈveːra]), also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as “one of the most popular paintings in Western art”.[1] It is also, according to Botticelli, Primavera (1998), read more
The Mona Lisa ( Italian: Monna Lisa or La Gioconda) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in read more
The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena) is a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world’s most famous paintings. The work is presumed to have been commenced around 1495-1496 read more
Zuccone is the popular name of the statue of the Prophet Habakkuk Donatello, coming from the niches of the third order of the Giotto’s bell tower, dating from 1423 to 1435.