Italian
1449-1494
Domenico Ghirlandaio Galleries
Painter, mosaicist and possibly goldsmith. He was head of one of the most active workshops in late 15th-century Florence. He developed a style of religious narrative that blended the contemporary with the historical in a way that updated the basic tenets of early Renaissance art. Domenico documented material situation
The Visitation (mk05)
The Visitation (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20058
Wood 67 1/2 x 65''(117 x 165 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1812
Wood 67 1/2 x 65''(117 x 165 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1812
Sebastiano del Piombo 1485-1547 Italian Sebastiano del Piombo Galleries
Italian painter. He was one of the most important artists in Italy in the first half of the 16th century, active in Venice and Rome. His early, Venetian, paintings are reminiscent of Giovanni Bellini and to a lesser extent of Giorgione. With his move to Rome in 1511 he came under the influence of Raphael and then of Michelangelo, who supplied him with drawings. After the death of Raphael (1520) he was the leading painter working in Rome and was particularly noted as a portrait painter. In his finest works, such as the Piete (1513; Viterbo, Mus. Civ.) and the Flagellation (1516-24; Rome, S Pietro in Montorio), there is a remarkable fusion of the Venetian use of colour and the grand manner of central Italian classicism. The Visitation (mk05) Painted in 1519 but dated in 1521
Canvas,66 1/4 x 52\'\'(168 x 132 cm).Collection of Francois I,no doubt in 1521;collection of Louis XIV