Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks: Two Versions, One Mystery
The Virgin of the Rocks is one of the most haunting religious paintings of the High Renaissance, created by Leonardo…
Fra Angelico’s Annunciation: A Whisper of Light
The Annunciation is one of the best loved religious paintings of the early Italian Renaissance, made by the Dominican friar…
The Annunciation by Simone Martini, a Gothic Splendor
The Annunciation by Simone Martini and his brother-in-law Lippo Memmi is the supreme masterpiece of Sienese Gothic painting, made in…
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Bold Saint
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy is one of the most intense and intimate religious paintings of the Italian Baroque, made by…
Botticelli’s Cestello Annunciation, Grace in Motion
The Cestello Annunciation is one of the most graceful treatments of the Annunciation in all of Renaissance art, painted by…
The Mystic Nativity and Botticelli’s Secret Prophecy
Mystic Nativity is the strangest and most personal religious painting by Sandro Botticelli, made around 1500 to 1501. On the…
Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony, Faith Against Nightmares
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a small, strange and unforgettable panel by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, painted…
Georges de La Tour’s Magdalen with the Smoking Flame: A Candlelit Soul
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame is one of the most haunting nocturnes of the French Baroque, painted by Georges…
Rembrandt’s Head of Christ: A Human Face of God
Head of Christ is a small, deeply human image of Jesus, painted by Rembrandt around 1648. It is not a…
Van Eyck’s Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and Its Secret Landscape
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is one of the most refined small paintings of the Northern Renaissance, made by Jan…