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Andrea Palladio

On August 10, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, november 30

Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, November 30, 1508-August 19, 1580

Portrait of Andrea Palladio

Chiesa del Redentore/Church of the Redeemer, c 1592 Venice

Villa La Rotonda, 1591 Vicenza, Italy

Villa Godi, 1542 Lugo di Vicenza, Italy

Andrea Palladio, Basilica Palladiana Facade on Piazza dei Signori, begun 1546 Vicenza, Italy

Basilica Palladiana (Vicenza) - facade on Piazza dei signori

Palazzo Chiericati, begun 1550 Vicenza

Palazzo del Capitanio in Vicenza, 1565

Villa Cornaro at Piombino Dese, begun 1553

Villa Barbaro in Maser, from 1554 until 1560 Province of Treviso, Italy

Villa Foscari, also called La Malcontenta, mid 1550s Vicenza, Italy

Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine, 1556-1563 Province of Rovigo, Italy,

Villa Valmarana, 1560s Bolzano Vicentino, Italy

Villa Saraceno, 1540s Agugliaro, Italy

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, begun 1561 Venice

Giampietrino

On August 8, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, nbd

Giampietrino, Italian painter, active 1495–1549

Death of Cleopatra, from 1500 Edit this at Wikidata Oil and wood, 28.7 x 22.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Lucrezia Romana, c. 1500-1540 Oil on wood panel Chazen Museum of Art , Madison, Wisconsin

Mary Magdalene in Prayer

Ecce Homo Oil on panel, 24.4 x 19.7 in // Private collection

Leda With Her Children, between 1520s and late 1530s Oil on panel, 50.3 x 41.5 in Hessen Kassel Heritage, Germany

Repentant Mary Magdalene Oil on panel, 19.3 x 15.4 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Michael, 1530s Oil on panel, 24 x 29.1 in // Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest

Madonna with Child, 1520s Oil on canvas, 22.8 x 19.3 in // The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Diana the Huntress, after 1526 Oil on panel, 44.8 x 23.2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Christ Carrying the Cross Oil on panel, 23.2 x 29.1 in // Museo Diocesano Milano

Salome, between circa 1510 and circa 1530 Oil on poplar wood, 27 x 22.5 in // National Gallery, London

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Giorgio Vasari

On July 30, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, july 30

Giorgio Vasari, Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer, July 30, 1511 – June 27, 1574

Portrait of Giorgio Vasari, from 1571 until 1574 Oil and wood, 39.5 x 31.4 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Six Tuscan Poets, 1544 Oil on panel, 52.2 × 51.6 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1570? Oil on panel, 56.49 x 50 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Pietà, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 68.5 x 51.1 in // Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France

The Bird Catchers Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 40.2 in // Private collection

Temptations of St Jerome, 1541 Oil on panel, 66.5 x 48.4 in // Palazzo Pitti, Florence

St Luke Painting the Virgin, after 1565 Fresco Santissima Annunziata, Florence

Justice, 1542 Oil on panel, 31.1 x 74 in) Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Allegory of Justice and Truth, 1543 Oil on panel, 11.5 ft x 99.2 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Giorgio Vasari, Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, c 1555 - 65 Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card, 14 3/16 × 9 9/16 in // Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades, California

Sacrifice of Isaac, 1545-1546 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

The Uffizi Loggia, Florence, 1560

Allegory of Patience, 1542 Oil on canvas, 30 x 66.5 in // Galleria dell'Academia, Venice

Allegory of Patience, 1552 Oil on canvas, 77.9 x 42.8 in // The Klesch Collection, London

Suicide of Judas, 1542 Oil on canvas Casa Vasari Museum, Arezzo

Bernardo Cavallino

On July 21, 2025 - 17th Century, Italian, nbd

Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter, 1616–1656

The Spirit of Samuel Invoked by Saul, about 1650 - 1656 Oil on copper, 24.01 x 34.01 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

The Incredulity of St Thomas, circa 1640 Oil on canvas, 18.8 x 14.1 in // Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

Saint Lawrence, between 1640 and 1645 Oil on canvas, 25.7 x 21 in // Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid

Adoration of the Magi, 1640 Oil on canvas, 39.96 x 50 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Triumph of Galatea, circa 1650 Oil on canvas, 59.8 x 80.7 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Singer, between 1645 and 1650 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 24.8 in // Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

Clavichord Player, first half of 17th century Oil on canvas, 31.4 x 25.5 in // Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 38.25 in // Private collection

Saint Bartholomew, about 1640-1645 Oil on canvas, 69 x 49.2 in // National Gallery, London

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Dosso Dossi

On July 14, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, nbd

Dosso Dossi, Italian painter, c. 1489–1542

Dosso Dossi, Self-Portrait

Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue, 1524 Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 59 in // Wawel Castle, Kraków, Poland

Portrait of Duke Alfonso I d'Este, between c 1534 and c 1536 Oil on canvas, 44.6 x 57.8 in // Galleria Estense, Modena, Italy

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape, c 1514-1516 Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 53.5 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Apollo and Daphne, 1524 Oil on canvas, 13 yd x 46.4 in // Galleria Borghese, Rome

The Three Ages of Humans Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 44 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Saint Lucretia, c. 1520 Oil on panel, 20 3/8 x 16 in // National Gallery, Washington DC

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Domenichino

On July 9, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, october 21

Domenichino, Italian painter, October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641

Saint Agnes, circa 1620 Oil on canvas, 83.7 x 60 in // Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Apparition of the Virgin and Child and San Gennaro at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637–38 Oil on canvas Cathedral of Naples

The Way to Calvary, about 1610 Oil on copper, 21.14 x 26.61 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Virgin and Unicorn, c 1602 Fresco Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Diana and her Nymphs, between 1616 and 1617 Oil on canvas, 88.5 x 10.4 ft // Galleria Borghese, Rome

Saint Cecilia Playing the Viol, between 1623 and 1633 Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 47.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626 Oil on canvas, 48 x 67 3/4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Rinaldo and Armida, 1610s Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 66.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Two Studies of a Foot, 1591 - 1641 Red and white chalk on paper, 7.6 x 10.7 in // Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Domenichino, Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–30 Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper partly faded light brown, 13-3/8 x 9-9/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Venus, between c 1603 and c 1641 Oil on canvas, 47.9 x 66.4 in // York Art Gallery, UK

Cumaean Sibyl, c 1622 Oil on canvas, 48.4 x 37 in // Capitoline Museums, Rome

Bronzino

On June 24, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, november 17

Bronzino, Italian painter, November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572

Portrait of Bronzino by Alessandro Allori, c. 1567–71

Eleanora of Toledo with her son Giovanni de’ Medici, 1544 Oil on canvas, 45 in × 38 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, Oil on board, 40 x 33 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Portrait of a Young Man with a Book, 1530s Oil on board, 37 5/8 x 29 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum, New York

Portrait of Stefano Colonna, 1546 Tempera on wood, 49.2 x 37.4 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Portrait of Ugolino Martelli, 1540 Oil on panel, 40.1 x 33.4 in // Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Garcia de' Medici, circa 1550 Oil on panel, 18.8 x 14.9 in // Museo del Prado, Madrid

Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune, between 1550 and 1555 Oil on canvas, 45.2 x 20.8 in // Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus, c. 1537-39 Oil on panel, 36.90 x 30.10 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, 1540–1545 Oil on panel, 57.4 x 45.6 in // National Gallery, London

Bronzino, Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, between 1548 and 1550 Oil on poplar wood, 75.5 x 55.9 in Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, between 1548 and 1550 Oil on poplar wood, 75.5 x 55.9 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 192.00 cm x 142.00 cm

Deposition of Christ, from 1540 until 1545 Oil on panel, 105.5 x 68.1 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France

The Holy Family, between circa 1540 and circa 1550 Tempera on panel, 46 x 38.9 in // Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John, 1545 - 1546 Oil on wood, 49.92 x 39.96 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Panciatichi Holy Family, circa 1540 Oil on panel, 46x 36 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Pietà, circa 1530 Oil on panel, 41.3 x 39.3 in // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Jacopo Bassano

On June 24, 2025 - 16th Century, Italian, nbd

Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter, c 1510 – February 14, 1592

Self-portrait in later age

Portrait of a Military Commander in Armor, Oil on canvas, 42⅞ x 32½ in // Private collection

The Way to Calvary, circa 1540 Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 52.1 in // National Gallery, London

The Good Samaritan, between circa 1562 and circa 1563 Oil on canvas, 40.1 x 31.3 in // National Gallery, London

The Adoration of the Kings, early 1540s Oil on canvas, 72 x 92.5 in // Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Last Supper, circa 1546 Oil on canvas, 66.1 x 106.2 in // Galleria Borghese, Rome

Adoration of the Magi, 1563–64 Oil on canvas, 36.33 x 46.25 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Calvary, circa 1575 Oil on slate, 19.44 x 11.73 in // Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Portrait of a Cardinal, circa 1545 Oil on canvas, 22.8 in x 18.1 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

St Jerome, 1556 Oil on canvas, 46.9 x 60.6 in // Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Pastoral Scene, c. 1560 Oil on canvas, 54.7 x 50.8 in // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Two Hounds, 1548-49 Oil on canvas, 24 x 31.5 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Jacopo Bassano, Head of an Old Man with White Beard, Turned to the Right, 1588 Colored chalks, dampened and stumped, on paper, 10 3/4 x 7 3/8 in Morgan Library, New York

Head of an Old Man with White Beard, Turned to the Right, 1588 Colored chalks, dampened and stumped, on paper, 10 3/4 x 7 3/8 in // Morgan Library, New York

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Piero della Francesca

On June 23, 2025 - 15th Century, Italian, nbd

Piero della Francesca, Italian painter 1415-1492

The Nativity, 1480s Oil on panel, 48.8 x 48.4 in // National Gallery, London

Piero della Francesca, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, between 1475 and 1482 Oil and tempera on panel and on canvas, 42.4 x 30.8 in Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, between 1475 and 1482 Oil and tempera on panel and on canvas, 42.4 x 30.8 in // Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Baptism of Christ, 1448-50 Egg tempera on poplar panel, 65.7 x 45.7 in // National Gallery, London

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 1451 Oil and tempera on panel, 17.3 x 13.4 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Piero della Francesca, Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza 1473-75 Oil on wood, 18.5 x 13 in (each) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza 1473-75 Oil on wood, 18.5 x 13 in (each) // Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Saint Mary Magdalen, 1460 Fresco, 74.8 x 41.3 in // Duomo, Arezzo

Resurrection, 1463-65 Mural in fresco and tempera, 88.6 x 78.7 in // Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro

Hercules, c. 1465 Fresco, 59.4 x 49.6 in // Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Madonna of Senigallia, c. 1470 Panel, 24 x 20.9 in // Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece), 1472-74 Oil and tempera on panel, 97.6 x 66.9 in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece), 1472-74 Oil and tempera on panel, 97.6 x 66.9 in // Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Death of Adam (detail), 1452-66 Fresco San Francesco, Arezzo

Piero della Francesca, Procession of the Queen of Sheba; Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, 1452-66 Fresco, 11 x 24.5 ft San Francesco, Arezzo

Procession of the Queen of Sheba; Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, 1452-66 Fresco, 11 x 24.5 ft // San Francesco, Arezzo

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Pisanello

On June 23, 2025 - 15th Century, Italian, nbd

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