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Sandro Botticelli

On April 24, 2025 - 15th Century, 16th Century, Italian, march 1

Ludovico Carracci

On April 21, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian

Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter, 21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619

St. Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, 1612 Oil on canvas, 65.74 in x 91.73 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Transfiguration ,1595 Oil on canvas, 172 in × 105 in // Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy

Bargellini Madonna, 1588 Oil on canvas, 111 x 74 in // Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy

Lavinia Fontana

On April 20, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, august 24, Italian

Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, August 24, 1552–August 11, 1614

Self-Portrait in the Studio, 1579 Oil on canvas Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Lavinia Fontana, Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France

Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France Antonietta Gonzales, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 22.4 in x 18.1 in Musée des Beaux-Arts de Blois, France

Christ appears to Mary Magdalen, 1581 Oil on canvas, 31.4 in x 25.5 in Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, before 1614 Oil on canvas. 39 x 52.6 in // Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Portrait of Costanza Alidosi, circa 1595 Oil on canvas, 61.9 in x 47.3 in // National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

Self-portrait at the Virginal with a Servant, 1577 Oil on canvas, 10.62 × 9.44 in Accademia di San Luca, Rome

Lorenzo Lotto

On April 6, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Lorenzo Lotto, Italian painter, 1480-1556

Lorenzo Lotto, Presumed self-portrait, c 1540

Portrait of a young man, c 1526 Oil on paper, 18.5 in x 14.5 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of a Woman, c.1506 Oil on wood, 14.2 x 11 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France

Portrait of a Gentleman with a Lion Paw, c. 1524–1525 Oil on canvas, 37.6 in × 27.4 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria with Niccoló Bonghi, 1523 Oil on panel, 74 in × 53 in // Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Portrait of a Man with a Felt Hat, 1541 Oil on paper, 22.8 x 18.5 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Madonna with St. Roch and St. Sebastian, 1522 Oil on wood, 32.2 in × 42.7 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Lorenzo Lotto, Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, 1524 Oil on wood, 45.3 x 38.6 in National Gallery of Ancient Art (GNAA), Rome

Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, 1524 Oil on wood, 45.3 x 38.6 in // National Gallery of Ancient Art (GNAA), Rome

St. Lucia in Prayer, 1532 Oil on wood, 12.6 x 9.8 in // Jesi Municipal Art Gallery, Italy

Madonna of the Rosary, 1539 Oil on canvas, 12.5 ft x 103.9 in // Chiesa di San Domenico, Cingoli, Marche, Italy

St Christopher, 1531 Oil on canvas, 63.7 in x 22.4 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Portrait of Giovanni Agostino della Torre and his son Niccolò, 1515 Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 26.9 in // National Gallery, London

Portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527 Oil on canvas, 41 in × 45.9 in // Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London

Architect, c.1535 Oil on canvas, 41x 32 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Woman Taken in Adultery, 1520s Oil on canvas, 48.8 in x 61.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Fra Bartolomeo

On March 28, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, march 28

Fra Bartolomeo, Italian painter, 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517

Presumed portrait of Fra Bartolomeo

Vision of St Bernard with Sts Benedict and John the Evangelist, 1504 Oil on panel, 83.8 x 86.6 in / Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola, circa 1497-1498 Oil on panel, 18.5 × 12.2 in / Museum of San Marco, Florence

Pietà, 1516 Oil on wood, 62.2 x 78.3 in Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Raphael Sanzio

On March 28, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, march 28

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), Italian painter and architect, March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520

Presumed self-portrait of Raphael

The Deposition, 1507 Oil on panel, 68.7 x 70.2 in / Galleria Borghese, Rome

Raphael, The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Part of Raphael Cartoons, c.1515 - c.1516 Bodycolour over charcoal on many sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 10.46 ft x 13.09 ft Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Part of Raphael Cartoons, c.1515 - c.1516 Bodycolour over charcoal on many sheets of paper, mounted on canvas, 10.46 ft x 13.09 ft / Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Young Man Carrying an Old Man on His Back, circa 1514 Sanguine on paper Albertina, Vienna

The Madonna of Loreto, c. 1511 Oil on panel, 47 in × 35 in // Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

Jean Clouet

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, French

Jean Clouet, Netherlandish painter, c. 1485 – 1540/1

Portrait of Jean Clouet

Portrait of Marguerite of Navarre, circa 1527 Oil on panel, 23.5 in x 20.2 in, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Jean Clouet, Princess Charlotte c. 1517

Jean de La Barre, Comte d’Étampes, Seigneur de Bérets, 1520s Chalk on paper, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Jean Clouet, Portrait of Jacques Ricard, circa 1515

Henry II of France as a Child, 1520s Oil on panel, 11.8 in x 9 in, Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Portrait of François I as St John the Baptist, 1518 Oil on panel, 37.7 in x 31.1 in, Louvre Museum, Paris

Jean Clouet, Eleanor of Austria, 1530

Portrait of Charlotte of France, circa 1522 Oil on cradled panel, 7 in x 5.2 in, Minneapolis Institute of Art

Jean Clouet, Carrying the Cross, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier c.1452 - c.1460 Illumination on parchment, 6.4 x 4.7 in Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

Carrying the Cross, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier c.1452 - c.1460 Illumination on parchment, 6.4 x 4.7 in // Musée Condé, Chantilly, France

El Greco

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Greek, Spanish

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), Greek painter, October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614

Self-Portrait, 1595-1600 Oil on canvas, 21 x 18 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

St. Peter in Penitence, c.1585 Oil on canvas. 43 x 35 in Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK

The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, c.1610 Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 32.3 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Penitent Mary Magdalene, between c 1576 and c 1577 Oil on canvas, 61.6 in x 47.6 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Adoration of the Name of Jesus, between 1577 and 1580 Oil on canvas, 55.1 in x 43.3 in // Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

Tintoretto

On March 26, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian

Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, Venetian painter, 1518-1594

Self-Portrait by Tintoretto, c. 1587-1588, via Louvre, Paris

The Massacre of the Innocents, between 1582 and 1587 Oil on canvas, 13.8 ft x 17.9 ft Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

The Flight into Egypt, 1582 - 1587 Oil on canvas, 13 ft 10 9/64 in x 19 feet 11/32 inch // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

Madonna dell'Orto (Venice) - Choir - St. Peter’s Vision of the Cross by Tintoretto

The Visitation, circa 1588 Oil on canvas, 62.2 in x 93.3 in // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

The Raising of Lazarus, between 1579 and 1581 Oil on canvas, 17.7 ft x 11.6 ft // Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice

Saint George and the Dragon, circa 1555 Oil on canvas, 62.3 in x 39.5 in // National Gallery, London

Jacopo Pontormo

On March 25, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, may 24

Jacopo Pontormo, Italian artist, May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557

Portrait of Francesco da Castiglione, 1520 Oil on wood, 20 x 15 in Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Study of a Male Figure for the 'Deposition' Altarpiece in the Capella Capponi, Santa Felicita, Florence, 1525-27 Charcoal on paper

Female Nude, 1535-1543 Black chalk, 8 x 13 // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Saint Jerome Penitent, 1527-1528 Oil on panel, 41.3 in x 31.4 in // Landesmuseum Hannover, Germany

Saint Sebastian, 1515 Oil on panel, 25.5 in x 18.8 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France

The Birth of John the Baptist, 1526 Oil on panel, 21.2 in x 21.2 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Madonna and Child, 1532 Oil on canvas, Museum of John Paul II Collection, Warsaw, Poland

Saint Luke, 1526 Oil on panel, 27.5 in // Santa Felicità, Florence

Saint John the Evangelist, 1525 Oil on panel, 27.5 in // Santa Felicità, Florence

Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici and Giulia de' Medici, ca. 1539 Oil on panel, 34 5/8 x 28 1/16 in // Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Study of a Man Wearing a Hat, 1519-21 Red chalk with incised lines for transfer, 6.1 x 7.8 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Studies of a Youth Pouring from a Jug, 1523-24 Red chalk, 12.4 x 7.6 in // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Joseph Being Sold to Potiphar, 1515 - 1518 Oil on wood, 22.8 in x 19.6 in // National Gallery, London

Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John, c.1527 Oil on wood, 20.5 x 15.7 in

Study for Deluge, circa 1546 Red chalk on paper, 16.49 in x 8.50 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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