Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus (1486) The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici, close friend to Botticelli. It …

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci Ginevra De’ Benci

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Leonardo Da Vinci Ginevra De’ Benci (1474) Ginevra de Benci was an aristocrat from fifteenth-century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967. Buy Leonardo …

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani Alice

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Amedeo Modigliani Alice (1915) Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures. In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. Buy Amedeo Modigliani Alice prints at Fine Art America

Titian

Titian Venus With A Mirror

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Titian Venus with a Mirror c. 1555 Painting Italian High Renaissance Venus with a Mirror is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de’ Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may …

Renaissance

Raphael Alba Madonna

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Raphael The Alba Madonna 1510 Painting The Alba Madonna is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, depicting Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist, in a typical Italian countryside. John the Baptist is holding up a cross to Jesus, which the baby Jesus is grasping. All three figures are staring at the cross. …