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Rome, Sant'Agostino: 260 × 150 cm Oil on canvas: 1604: John the Baptist: Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 172.5 × 104.5 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: John the Baptist: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Corsini: 94 × 131 cm Oil on canvas: c. 1604: The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew: London, Hampton Court Palace ...
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations. The complex ...
Roman mosaic was a minor art, though often on a very large scale, until the very end of the period, when late-4th-century Christians began to use it for large religious images on walls in their new large churches; in earlier Roman art mosaic was mainly used for floors, curved ceilings, and inside and outside walls that were going to get wet.
National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal: Oil on panel 25,6 x 43,9 1503: Saint Jerome Punishing the Heretic Sabinian [Wikidata] North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, United States: Oil on panel 25,7 x 41,9 1502–1504: Coronation of the Virgin: Vatican Museums, Vatican City: Tempera on panel transferred to canvas 272 x 165 1502–1504:
Rome's Piazza Navona.. Rome has for over two thousand years been one of the most important artistic centres in the world. Early Ancient Roman art initially developed from the Etruscan art slightly to its north, but from about 2000 BC, as the Roman republic became involved with the Greek world, Ancient Greek art and architecture became the dominant influence, until the two effectively merged ...
Galleria Borghese, Rome 1609–1615 Sculpture Marble Height 44 cm (17.3 in) 1 [4] Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni: Santa Prassede, Rome 1613–1616 Sculpture Marble Life-size 2 [4] A Faun Teased by Children: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1616–1617 Sculpture Marble Height 132 cm (52 in) NA [5] The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence: Uffizi ...
The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0810917118. Peter Rohrbacher: Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik für den Papst. Missionsexperten und der Vatikan 1922–1939 in: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 54 (2012), 583–610.
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) Venus and Adonis - many different versions, with varying contributions by Titian himself. See one in the Prado above, and in Rome below. c. 1555: 106 × 133 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Filippo Archinto, Archbishop of Milan: c. 1555: 118 × 94 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)