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We have missed something interesting! On the 4th of April 1581, Francis #Drake was knighted by Queen #ElizabethI aboard his ship, the Golden Hind. By the time, he had completed the first circumnavigation of the world a few months earlier.
This belongs to #Quattrocento in Italian art.
Artwork: Lorenzo de’ #Medici
Artist: Andrea del Verrocchio, known as #Verrocchio
Time: c. 1480
Style: Early #Renaissance
Genre: famous people, sculpture
Type: terracotta
'Annunciation to the Shepherds' by Taddeo #Gaddi, c. 1330, fresco, Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, #Florence, Italy
This belongs to #Trecento
Artwork: Betrayal of Christ (Kiss of Judas)
Artist: Giotto di Bondone, known as #Giotto
Time: c. 1305
Style: Early #Renaissance
Genre: religious art
Type: tempera and gold leaf on panel
Location: Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, #Padua, Italy
This belongs to #Trecento in Italian art.
Artwork: Arte della Lana Altarpiece (Altar of the Eucharist)
Artist: il #Sassetta
Time: 1423
Style: Early #Renaissance
Type: altarpiece
Location: fragments of the altarpiece are now divided among various private and public collections.
This belongs to #Trecento in Italian art.
Artwork: The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, #Maesta Altarpiece (verso)
Artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna #Duccio
Time: 1308-11
Style: Proto #Renaissance
Type: tempera on wood
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Work: The Tribute Money
Artist: #Masaccio, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone
Year: the 1420s
Type: a religious fresco
Style: #EarlyRenaissance #Quattrocento
Location: the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Artwork: The Family of Darius before Alexander
Artist: Paolo #Caliari, known as Paolo #Veronese
Type: oil on canvas
Time of completion: 1565–1570
Style: Late #Renaissance
Museum: National Gallery, London.
Artwork: The San Zaccaria Altarpiece (also called Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints)
Artist: Giovanni #Bellini
Type: altarpiece, oil on canvas
Time of completion: c. 1505
Style: Early #Renaissance
Place: the church of San Zaccaria, Venice.
Painting: Christ Nailed to the Cross, or The Crucifixion (1575)
Artist: Vincenzo Campi
Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid
Style: High #Renaissance