Posts tagged 15th century
Spooky Long-Lost Da Vinci Painting Hailed as $200 Million Masterpiece: “An eerie painting of Christ holding a glass orb in one hand and making a benediction with the other, all the while leveling an otherworldly stare at the viewer, has been authenticated as a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci portrait, putting it ‘up there with any artistic discovery of the last 100 years,’ according to ARTnews. Called ‘Salvator Mundi’ (‘Savior of the World’), the painting will now go on view in a Leonardo show opening at London’s National Gallery in November, and it is said to carry an asking price of $200 million.” (@ artinfo)
Luca Signorelli
The Resurrection of the Flesh (detail), from the Last Judgement cycle
Orvieto Cathedral
1499-1502
Sandro Botticelli
Primavera, aka Allegory of Spring
ca. 1482
Uffizi, Florence
(via skeetshoot)
Donatello
The Penitent Magdalene
ca. 1453-55
Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
Jean Fouquet - ‘Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels’, c. 1452-55
“This is one of my favorite paintings in the world. What inspires me about this is the bold colour of red in the angels perceiving the darker side of heaven and the gray blue angels depicting the lighter side. I’ve always been inspired by 14th/15th-century art and this painting in particular.” - Alexander McQueen
(via The Moment, 6/2008)
