Search Results: Giovanni Bellini

Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance marks the first multidisciplinary exhibition in Italy to examine the profound impact of Italian Renaissance art on the Pre-Raphaelite movement, which flourished in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (c. 1840-1920...

The Battle of Rivoli (14-15 January 1797) was the climactic battle of Napoleon's Italian Campaign of 1796-97. A fourth and final attempt by the Austrian army to relieve the siege of Mantua was thwarted by Napoleon Bonaparte's Army of Italy...

The Italian explorer John Cabot (aka Giovanni Caboto, c. 1450 - c. 1498 CE) sailed from England to eastern Canada in 1497 CE. His exact route and points of exploration are unclear and the map is therefore only an approximate guide.

Chronos and His Child, a depiction of the Titan Cronus as "Father Time," wielding a harvesting scythe, oil on canvas by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 17th century. National Museum, Warsaw.

By Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510 CE), commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de'Medici for Villa di Castello (?).

The 1544 painting by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) known as the 'Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets'. The poets are (left to right): Cino da Pistoia, Giuttone d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti. (Minneapolis...

A panel from the east doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni. Made from 1425 CE by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455 CE). Gilded bronze. This panel shows the story of Joseph and his brothers. The artist Michelangelo gave the doors the nickname...

The east doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni. Made from 1425 CE by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455 CE). Gilded bronze scenes from the Bible. The artist Michelangelo gave them the nickname the 'Gates of Paradise' such was the craftsmanship...

The Arnolfini Wedding oil on oak panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441). Created in Bruges in 1434 it shows the cloth merchant Giovanni Arnolfini with his wife Giovanna Cenami. The artist seems...

A self-portrait by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455 CE). Gilded bronze. From the east doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni. Made from 1425 CE.