Ranked #1
Giambattista TIEPOLO, Time unveiling truth [Il Tempo scropre la Verita] c.1743
Giambattista TIEPOLO, Time unveiling truth [Il Tempo scropre la Verita] c.1743
Time with a scythe to cut short time unveils Truth who holds the sun in her left hand while old Lies tumbles from a clou... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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Ranked #2
Giovanni Antonio CANALETTO, The view of San Marco Quay from the Bay [Veduta del Molo di San Marco dal Bacino] c.1730s
Giovanni Antonio CANALETTO, The view of San Marco Quay from the Bay [Veduta del Molo di San Marco dal Bacino] c.1730s
Canletto’s views of Venice contain a wealth of detail about social and commercial life. The strongly horizontal composit... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
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Ranked #3
Jacopo BASSANO, Matyrdom of St Catherine [Martirio di Santa Caterina] 1544
Jacopo BASSANO, Matyrdom of St Catherine [Martirio di Santa Caterina] 1544
Bassano was a leading 16th century Venetian Mannerist and this was painted in his youth. When Catherine remained true to... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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Ranked #4
Jacopo TINTORETTO ROBUSTI, The Visitation [La Visitazione] unknown
Jacopo TINTORETTO ROBUSTI, The Visitation [La Visitazione] unknown
This religious drama typifies the arrival of Mannerism in Venice with its heightened colour and uninhibited figures in a... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
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Ranked #5
Leonardo da VINCI, Study for the head of Christ for The Last Supper [Testa di Cristo] c.1495
Leonardo da VINCI, Study for the head of Christ for The Last Supper [Testa di Cristo] c.1495
Versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo created this drawing for his wall painting in Milan The Last Supper. The a... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
Ranked #6
Lorenzo LOTTO, Altarpiece of the Annunciation to the Virgin [L'Annunciazione] c.1535
Lorenzo LOTTO, Altarpiece of the Annunciation to the Virgin [L'Annunciazione] c.1535
Lotto was a restless traveller who absorbed many influences but left many letters and records. Here is a miraculous stor... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
Ranked #7
Paolo VERONESE CALIARI, Matyrdom of St Justine [Martirio di Santa Giustina] unknown
Paolo VERONESE CALIARI, Matyrdom of St Justine [Martirio di Santa Giustina] unknown
Justine of Padua became a martyr to the Christian faith when she was killed by a sword in her breast. Emperor Maximian, ... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
Ranked #8
Tiziano TITIAN VECELLIO, Sacred conversation: Mother and Child, St Catherine [Sacra Conversazione: Madonna con Bambino e i Santi Caterina e Domenico con il donatore] unknown
Tiziano TITIAN VECELLIO, Sacred conversation: Mother and Child, St Catherine [Sacra Conversazione: Madonna con Bambino e i Santi Caterina e Domenico con il donatore] unknown
The Virgin, holding the Christ child, and St Catherine are sumptuously clothed in their heavenly space. In stark contras... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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1min
Ranked #9
Vincenzo CAMPI, The fruitseller [L'Ortolana] c.1580
Vincenzo CAMPI, The fruitseller [L'Ortolana] c.1580
Campi introduced a regional realism to the Carracci Academy in Bologna and also influenced Carravaggio, who was born in ... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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Ranked #10
Giovan BARBIERI detto il Guercino, Arcadia also exists in the afterlife [Et in Arcadia Ego] c.1620
Giovan BARBIERI detto il Guercino, Arcadia also exists in the afterlife [Et in Arcadia Ego] c.1620
Guercino began his academic training in the Carracci academy and became a master Baroque painter. Shepherds contemplate ... Read more
26 Nov 2007
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