The Virgin is set against a gold-leaf background. Her heavenly nature is emphasised by her jewelled hood-trimming & the intricate patterns punched onto the painting's gilded surface. The Virgin's incomplete halo suggests that the panel may have been cropped at the top. A false attribution to the thirteenth-century Italian artist Cimabue appears in an inscription on the back of the panel. Until recently, the painting was thought to be French but new evidence suggests it was made in the region of Valencia, Spain, in the mid-fifteenth century. Pine panels like the one which this picture is painted were commonly used in the Mediterranean, particularly in Valencia. The thin layers of oil paint & the meticulous attention paid to decorative motifs recall Netherlandish painting, which the artist could have seen in Spain or by travelling to the Netherlands. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Titian’s The Virgin suckling the Infant Christ from our collection. About this painting The Virgin suckling the Infant Christ, about 1565-75 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1924 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

The Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Mary Magdalene & a Holy Woman are shown weeping, presumably over a figure of the dead Christ who was shown on the left. This was probably painted in Cologne in the 1530s, & must have been the right wing ...

The fragments of this altarpiece are mounted in a 19th-century frame. In the main panels are, from the left, Saints Michael & John the Baptist, & on the right, a bishop & a female martyr. The Archangel Gabriel & the Annunciate Virgin are depicted ...

In the left panel the Virgin is shown in a pose of adoration. The central panel represents Christ of the Apocalypse as described in the New Testament (Revelation 1: 13). He has a golden girdle; his head & hair are 'as white as snow'; in his right hand he holds the seven stars & in his left the keys of death & hell. Originally he may have held a two-edged sword in his mouth. On the right, John the Baptist holds a scroll with an inscription from the Old Testament (Isaiah 7: 14) ' Ecce virgo co (n)cipiet' (Behold a Virgin shall conceive). The scroll originally read ' Ecce agnus dei' (Behold the Lamb of God), the words usually associated with the Baptist. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Garofalo’s Vision of Saint Augustine from our collection. About this painting Vision of Saint Augustine, about 1520-35 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1831 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Pisanello’s The Vision of Saint Eustace from our collection. About this painting The Vision of Saint Eustace, 1438-42 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1865 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Saint Jerome (about 342
- 420) translated the Bible into Latin. He spent several years as a penitent in the Syrian desert, & is
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The painting shows the vision of the Blessed Clare of Rimini, who led a pious life of self-denial & good works (died 1326?). She kneels on the left while Christ, showing his wounds, appears on the right with the Apostles. He gives Saint John the Evangelist a book for her inscribed ' My peace I give to you. My peace I leave you'. The chequered habit she wears is humble cloth, not the habit of any Order. The altarpiece was probably a simple dossal, consisting of three scenes. A companion piece, ' Adoration of the Magi', is in Miami (Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables). ...

The Blessed Gabriele kneels & sees a vision of the Virgin & Child. The church, right, is San Francesco ad Alto, Ancona. The Blessed Gabriele was the Superior of this Franciscan convent, & was a member of the noble Anconese family of Ferretti. He die ...