Francis I, despite his military reverses in Italy, was enamoured of all things Italian. He commissioned the celebrated goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini to execute both tableware and sculpture and prevailed upon friendly rulers in Italy to send him works by Titian and Bronzino and casts of sculpture. He also imported Italian artists to design, build, and decorate his palaces, the Château de Madrid and Fontainebleau, both outside Paris. Rosso arrived in France in 1530, followed two years later by his fellow Italian, the Mannerist Francesco Primaticcio. In the gallery of Francis I at Fontainebleau, Rosso initiated a ... (100 of 71,640 words)Renaissance outside Italy
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- St. Andrew, wall painting in the presbytery of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome, 705–707.
- Lamentation, fresco by Giotto, c. 1305–06; in the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
- Click on image for enlargements of panels. “Garden of Earthly Delights” triptych, oil on wood by Hiëronymus Bosch, c. 1505–10; in the Prado, Madrid
- Click on image for enlargements of panels. The Isenheim Altarpiece, closed view showing panels depicting the Crucifixion, the Lamentation, and portraits of SS. Sebastian and Anthony, oil on multiple panels by Matthias Grünewald, 1515; in the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France.
- “The Tribute Money,” fresco by Masaccio, 1425; in the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
- The Annunciation, fresco by Fra Angelico, 1438–45; in the Museum of San Marco, Florence.
- Flagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy.
- The Battle of the Nudes, engraving by Antonio Pollaiuolo, c. 1470; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
- Primavera, tempera on wood by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1477–82; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
- Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
- The Last Supper, fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–98; in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan (in situ; prerestoration).
- Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–06; in the Louvre, Paris.
- The Grand-Duke’s Madonna, oil painting by Raphael, 1505; in the Pitti Palace, Florence.
- The Creation of Eve, marble relief on the central portal of the facade of San Petronio, Bologna, by Jacopo della Quercia, begun 1424.
- The Creation of Adam, detail of the ceiling fresco by Michelangelo, 1508–12; in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
- Sleeping Venus, oil on canvas by Giorgione, c. 1510, landscape background by Titian; in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Ger. 108.5 ×175 cm.
- Assumption, oil painting by Titian, 1516–18; in Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice.
- The Last Supper, oil painting by Tintoretto, 1592–94; in the chancel, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
- “Four Apostles,” oil on two wood panels by Albrecht Dürer, 1526; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Ger.
- Anne of Cleves, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539; in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
- Peasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- The Deposition of Christ, oil on canvas by Caravaggio, 1602–04; in the Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums, Vatican City.
- The Attributes of Music, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1765; in the Louvre, Paris.
- Oath of the Horatii, oil painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1784; in the Louvre, Paris.
- The Death of Marat, oil painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1793; in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
- “Pity,” colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, 1795; in the Tate Gallery, London
- La Grande Odalisque, oil on canvas by J.-A.-D. Ingres, 1814; in the Louvre, Paris.
- “The Boyarin Morozova,” oil painting by Vasily Surikov, one of the Peredvizhniki, 1887; in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- “The Cradle,” oil painting by Berthe Morisot, 1873; in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
- Le Moulin de la galette, oil on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876; in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
- Mont Sainte-Victoire, Seen from the Bibemus Quarry, oil on canvas by Paul Cézanne, 1897; in the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- Yellow Wheat and Cypress, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the National Gallery, London.
- Jane Avril, lithograph poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893; in the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France.
- The Sunblind, Synthetic Cubist collage on canvas with crayon by Juan Gris, 1914; in the Tate Gallery, London.
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