Masaccio’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden is one of the founding images of Renaissance painting, a fresco made by…
The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico, Silence at the Cross
The Crucifixion by Fra Angelico is a small, radiant panel from the dawn of the Italian Renaissance, painted around 1420…
Van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross, Grief That Mirrors Mary
The Descent from the Cross is one of the most moving images of grief in all of Western art, painted…
Duccio’s Maesta: Siena’s Golden Altarpiece
Duccio’s Maesta is the supreme masterpiece of the Sienese school and one of the great altarpieces of the Middle Ages,…
El Greco’s Christ Carrying the Cross: A Gaze to Heaven
Christ Carrying the Cross is one of the most tender and inward images of the Passion, painted by El Greco…
Alonso Cano, the Spanish Michelangelo of Paintings
Alonso Cano paintings carry the silvery hush of Granada and the quiet devotion that earned him the nickname of the Spanish Michelangelo.
The Last Bruges Paintings of Gerard David
Gerard David paintings close the great age of Bruges. Step into the silvery Madonnas and altarpieces of the last early Netherlandish master.
The Strange Religious Paintings of Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung paintings carry the Dürer line into a stranger, more visionary world. Step inside the altarpieces of the German Renaissance master of Strasbourg.
The Catholic Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger paintings hide a deep Catholic faith behind the famous court portraits. Step into the German master’s sacred panels of Basel.
The Late Gothic Religious Paintings of Hans Multscher
Hans Multscher paintings show late Gothic Swabia absorbing the new Flemish realism. Step into the Wurzach Altarpiece of the great Ulm master.