centuriespast:

May: Boating Party
Da Costa Hours, in Latin
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1515

The Morgan Library

nataliakoptseva:

Fra Filippo Lippi

Allegory of Music or Erato

Musicke OR Erato. Charming match! *

imagediver:

Click on the image to see the detail in a zoomable context.

Detail from Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, Joan de Burgunya

Burgunya jejeje

(via nataliakoptseva)

cavetocanvas:

Interior of the Arena Chapel (Scrovegni Chapel) in Padua - Giotto, c. 1303-05

Things to think about when studying:

• Why was Giotto so important?
• What stylistic elements of his figures and landscapes made them a bridge between medieval paintings and the Renaissance?

Honeymoon?…+

Igeee Karavadzsista!

(via caravaggista)

centuriespast:

Saint Peter and Simon Magus

Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) (Italian, Florence ca. 1420–1497 Pistoia)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

jaded-mandarin:

Virgin and Child with a Pear - Albrecht Dürer. Detail.

(via rosebiar)

maddhatts:

Detail of Jupiter and Io by Correggio

(via rosebiar)

jaded-mandarin:

The Madonna of the Cuccina Family - Paolo Veronese. Detail.

Madonna, Fra Filippo Lippi. Italian Early Renaissance Painter (1406-1469).

(Source: oldroze, via opus53)

The muscles of the upper spine, study by Leonardo da Vinci, 1509-1510,Bridgeman Art Library / The Royal Collection