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Writing Renaissance Women

Representing Women in Italian Renaissance Art
 
Erotic Representations:

Titian [Tiziano Vecellio] (1477 - 1576)

     Venus and the Organ Player (c. 1536)

     Venus of Urbino (Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi, 1538)

Allegorical Representations:

Titian (1477 - 1576)

     Sacred and Profane Love (Rome: Galleria Borghesi, c. 1515), with details.

Sandro Botticelli (1444? - 1510)

     Primavera (Florence: Uffizi, c. 1478), with detail.

     The Birth of Venus (Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi, after 1482)

     Venus and Mars (London: National Gallery, c. 1475)

Biblical Representations:

Titian (1477 - 1576)

     The Fall of Adam (c. 1571)

Masolino (c. 1400-c. 1447)

     The Fall (Florence: Brancacci Chapel, Church of the Carmine, c. 1425), with detail.

Anonymous

     The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden
(Rome: Biblioteca Vaticana, 15th century)

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)

     The Fall and Expulsion (Rome: Sistine Chapel, 1510)

Masaccio (1401 - 1428)

     The Expulsion (Florence: Brancacci Chapel, Church of the Carmine, c. 1428)

Fra Angelico (1400? - 1455)

     Cortona Annunciation (Cortona: Museo Diocesano, 1432 - 33), with detail.


Mantegna (c. 1431 - 1506)

    Madonna of the Stone Cutters (Florence: Galleria degli Uffizi, 1450s)

Botticelli (1444? - 1510)

     Pietà (Milan, Galleria Brera, after 1500)

Tintoretto [Jacopo Robusti] (1518 - 94)

     Susannah and the Elders (1555 - 56)

Artemesia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653)

     Judith and Holofernes (Naples: Museo Capitomonte, 1612 - 13)

Portraits:

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

    Ginerva de Benci (c. 1474)

    Mona Lisa (Paris: The Louvre, c. 1503 - 1505)
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