Florence and Rome. Patrons of the Renaissance
Merchants, monasteries, the Medici and the papal court. The changing work of artists from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century.
Italian paintings
Explore Italian paintings with zoom and narrated stories. Discover religious subjects, classical mythology, portraits and city views.
Paintings in this selection
66 artworks. Open a painting to read its story and explore its details.
Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa (Portrait of Lisa Gherardini)
1503–1519
Sandro BotticelliSpring (Primavera)
About 1480
Leonardo da VinciThe Last Supper
1495–1498
Sandro BotticelliThe Birth of Venus
c. 1485
Unidentified Roman paintersDionysiac frieze, Villa of the Mysteries — photographic panorama
80–70 BCE
Unknown mosaic artistsJustinian and his retinue
About 547
Fra AngelicoAnnunciation at San Marco
About 1440–1450
Sandro BotticelliAdoration of the Magi
1470–1475
Giotto di BondoneLamentation
1303–1305
Bartolomeo ManfrediCupid Chastised
1613
Antonio da CorreggioVirgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
c. 1515
Sandro BotticelliVirgin and Child with an Angel
1475–85
TintorettoTarquin and Lucretia
1578–80
Pontormo,Alessandro de' Medici
1534–35
Giovanni BelliniMadonna and Child
late 1480s
Sandro BotticelliThe Last Communion of Saint Jerome
early 1490s
BronzinoPortrait of a Young Man
1530s
CanalettoPiazza San Marco
late 1720s
CaravaggioThe Musicians
1597
Vittore CarpaccioThe Meditation on the Passion
ca. 1490
Annibale CarracciThe Coronation of the Virgin
after 1595
Giotto di BondoneThe Adoration of the Magi
possibly ca. 1320
GuercinoSamson Captured by the Philistines
1619
Fra Filippo LippiPortrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
ca. 1440Consider where each work was originally displayed. An altarpiece, a painting for a private collection and a palace commission could address very different audiences. The artwork stories explain the subjects and documented commissions, while tours connect individual works.
Artists
- El Greco
- Bartolomeo Manfredi
- Antonio da Correggio
- Sandro Botticelli
- Tintoretto
- Pontormo,
- Giovanni Bellini
- Bronzino
- Canaletto
- Caravaggio
- Vittore Carpaccio
- Annibale Carracci
- Anthony van Dyck
- Giotto di Bondone
- Guercino
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Lorenzo Lotto
- Andrea Mantegna
- Piero di Cosimo
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Simone Martini
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Titian
- Paolo Veronese
- Duccio di Buoninsegna
- Fra Angelico
- Berlinghiero
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Raphael
- Giovanni Bellini and Titian
- Michelangelo
- Giorgione
- Masaccio
- Unidentified Roman painters
- Mosaicists of San Vitale
- Orazio Gentileschi
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How to explore the paintings
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