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Artwork: The Cuman Sibyl
Artist: Andrea del #Castagno
Date: 1450
Style: Early #Renaissance)
Genre: mythological painting
Type: fresco
Location: Uffizi Gallery, #Florence, #Italy
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of #York (one of the two princes who disappeared in the Tower of London) was born on the 17th of August 1473. He was the 6th child and second son of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. The boy was created Duke of York in 1474.
Artwork: Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus)
Artist: Lavinia #Fontana
Date: 1598-1600
Style: #Mannerism (Late #Renaissance)
Genre: family painting, oil on canvas
Location: private collection
On the 5th of August 1100, Henry I, known as Henry Beauclerc, is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey. Henry was the youngest surviving son of William the Conqueror (#Normans) and his wife, Mathilda of Flanders.
‘Rearing horse’ by Leonardo da #Vinci
This red-chalk Rearing Horse drawing
This belongs to #Quattrocento in Italian art.
Artwork: Triumph of the Virtues (The Parnassus and Minerva)
Artist: Andrea #Mantegna
Time: c. 1497
Style: High #Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Material: canvas, tempera
Location: the Musée du Louvre, #Paris, #France
This belongs to #Quattrocento in Italian art.
Artwork: Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon
Artist: Andrea #Mantegna
Time: c. 1454
Style: Early #Renaissance
Genre: religious painting, altarpiece
Material: glue on tempera on canvas
Location: Museo nazionale di Capodimonte, #Naples, #Italy
This belongs to #Quattrocento in Italian art.
Artwork: the Madonna adoring the Infant Christ
Artist: Andrea della #Robbia
Time: the 15th century
Style: Early #Renaissance
Genre: terracotta
Location: #Tuscany, #Italy