The 38 Artworks of media Poplar

High Museum of Art (Atlanta, United States)

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Fernando Yanez De La Almedina - Head of Christ

Head of Christ Fernando Yanez De La Almedina

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

The mesmerizing expression and distant gaze of Jesus would have made this a particularly effective painting for private devotion. Yáñez spent time in Italy, where he worked with Leonardo da Vinci, returning to his native Spain in 1506. The delicate play of light across the face and the description o...

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Étagère Alexandre Roux

High Museum of Art (Atlanta, United States)

Consoles such as this one were often used by the elite purely for decoration. Étagères were especially popular in opulent mid-nineteenth-century parlors, where the mirrors reflected light and shelves displayed all manner of ornaments, silver, porcelain, oddities, and objets d’art—symbols of affluenc...

Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger Aelbrecht Bouts

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Aelbrecht Bouts - Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

This grisly depiction of John the Baptist’s severed head was once an extremely popular image, due to the saint’s growing cult in the Middle Ages. The panel is one of more than twenty versions produced through the transfer of the design from a common workshop pattern in the circles of Dieric Bouts an...

Sideboard William Whitehead Ratcliffe

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High Museum of Art (Atlanta, United States)

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Pierantonio Bandini Agnolo Bronzino

National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada)

Chest-on-Chest Thomas Gross, Jr.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, United States)

Salvator Mundi Andrea Previtali

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The image of the /

Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog Agnolo Bronzino

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Agnolo Bronzino - Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog

Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany)

Mary Enthroned with the Child, Saints and a Donor Gentile Da Fabriano

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Gentile Da Fabriano - Mary Enthroned with the Child, Saints and a Donor

Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland Hans Süss Von Kulmbach

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Hans Süss Von Kulmbach - Portrait of a Young Man; (reverse) Girl Making a Garland

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

Double-sided portraits from the Renaissance sometimes combine a straightforward depiction of the sitter with a more symbolic picture on the reverse. This example pairs the likeness of a young man with the image of a girl making a flower garland in a windowsill. A curling banderole above her reads, '...

Portrait of Pope Julius II Raphael Coxcie

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Raphael Coxcie - Portrait of Pope Julius II

Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany)

The Virgin of the Rocks Leonardo Da Vinci

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Leonardo Da Vinci - The Virgin of the Rocks

An elaborate sculpted altar was commissioned by the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory in San Francesco in 1480. A new contract was drawn up in 1483 with Leonardo and the de Predis brothers: a central panel was to be painted by Leonardo alone, and there were to be ...

Mary with the Child and Singing Angels Sandro Botticelli

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Sandro Botticelli - Mary with the Child and Singing Angels

It is possible that this circular picture used to belong to the Brothers of S. Francesco in Florence. Mary is identifi ed as the Queen of Heaven by a crown, but at the same time she is the mother of the boy Christ, who is marked out for sacrifi ce. He is reaching for her breast. Theologians saw Mary...

Venus, Cupid and Jealousy Agnolo Bronzino

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Agnolo Bronzino - Venus, Cupid and Jealousy

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)

The human eye cannot see like this,/

Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist Lucas Cranach The Elder

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Lucas Cranach The Elder - Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)

The painter prince of the Protestant Reformation, Lucas Cranach was a close friend of Martin Luther, and also the godfather to his children. He made the illustrations of Luther/

Madonna Terranuova Raphael Coxcie

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This picture was painted shortly after Raphael’s arrival in Florence and “was his fi rst attempt at the tondo format that was so popular in that city. The Madonna’s face was much more confi - dently composed than in his three earlier Berlin paintings. Leonardo’s infl uence is becoming stronger than ...

The Last Judgement (Winged Altar)Fra Angelico

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Fra Angelico - The Last Judgement (Winged Altar)

The Adoration of the Magi Domenico Veneziano

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Domenico Veneziano - The Adoration of the Magi

Saint Andrew (?)Gaudenzio Ferrari

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The Nativity Piero Della Francesca

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This scene shows Mary kneeling in adoration before a newly-born Christ who is laid on her cloak. Five angels sing welcoming his birth - two of them play lutes. Beside them a donkey appears to bray, while an Ox peers down solemnly at Christ.Two shepherds are present (their faces have lost detail, pos...

The Resurrection of Christ Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio - The Resurrection of Christ

Profile Portrait of a Young Lady Antonio Del Pollaiuolo

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The Holy Family Andrea Del Sarto

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Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)

Mary with the Child Andrea Del Verrocchio

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Andrea Del Verrocchio - Mary with the Child

Only two paintings have been definitely attributed to Verrocchio. A group of pictures of the Madonna is related to his marble and terracotta reliefs. Only in the case of the /