Francesco del Cossa | Saint Lucy, ca. 1473/1474

Artist: Francesco del Cossa (Italian Early Renaissance painter, 1435-1477);

Title: Saint Lucy / Santa Lucia;

Date: c. 1473-1474;

Medium: Tempera on poplar panel;

Dimensions overall: 77.2 × 56 cm (30 3/8 × 22 1/16 in.);

Sold: May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;

Gift: 1939 to The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;

Current location: The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

This work originally formed part of the Griffoni Altarpiece commissioned by Floriano Griffoni for his family chapel in the church of San Petronio in Bologna.

Moïse Kisling | Modern painter

Moïse Kisling (1891-1953), born Mojżesz Kisling, was a Polish-born French painter.

He moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 19, and became a French citizen in 1915, after serving and being wounded with the French Foreign Legion in World War I.

He emigrated to the United States in 1940, after the fall of France, and returned there in 1946.

Born in Kraków, Austria-Hungary, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków.

His teachers encouraged the young man to go to Paris, France, considered the international center for artistic creativity in the early 20th century.

Tondo Art

Woman with wax tablets and stylus, so called Sappho | Fresco | Pompeii, Naples, National Archaeological Museum

A tondo (plural "tondi" or "tondos") is a Renaissance🎨 term for a circular work of art, either a painting or a sculpture.

The word derives from the Italian rotondo, "round".

The term is usually not used in English for small round paintings, but only those over about 60 cm (two feet) in diameter, thus excluding many round portrait miniatures - for sculpture the threshold is rather lower.

Betto Lotti | Romantic Realist painter

Benedetto (Betto) Lotti (Taggia, July 12, 1894 - Como, 1977) was an Italian painter and engraver who belonged to the art movement called Novecento Italiano.

Family and early

Betto Lotti was the son of Vincenzo, art teacher, headmaster and painter, and Vittoria dei Marchesi Curlo, both coming from the region of Liguria.

Due to fact that his father was working for the state, the family was constrained to move constantly and the young man had to attend schools in different Italian cities.

Giovanni Bellini | Madonna and Child, 1470

Artist: Giovanni Bellini (Italian High Renaissance painter, ca.1430-1516)

Date:ca. 1470

Medium: Tempera, oil, and gold on wood

Dimensions: 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (54 x 40 cm) (31 x 26 inches framed)

Classification: Paintings

Current location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bellini, reveals the profound influence of his brother-in-law, the Paduan master Andrea Mantegna, both in the figure types and the inclusion of the garland.