Artworks
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Venus of Urbino
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 Read more [...]
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School of Athens
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 Read more [...]
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Sant’Anna Metterza
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 Read more [...]
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San Sebastian (Botticelli)
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian is a painting tempera on panel (195×100 cm) by Sandro Botticelli, dated January 1473 and kept in Gemà ldegalerie Berlin. This post is also available in: Read more [...]
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Rape of Proserpina (Bernini)
The Rape of Proserpina is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. It Read more [...]
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