Frederic, Baron Leighton of Stretton was a great admirer of Italian Renaissance painting and showed, for his time, an advanced appreciation of the early Italian painters, including Cimabue and Giotto. He drew heavily on 15th- and 16th-century sources in working on Cimabue's celebrated Madonna. Ironically, the altarpiece shown by Leighton (now in the Uffizi) is today recognised to be by Duccio, not Cimabue.
The vivid landscape oil sketches which Leighton made during much of his career, but rarely exhibited, are less well known than his large-scale figure paintings.
Frederic, Lord Leighton
1830 - 1896
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Paintings by Frederic, Lord Leighton
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Cimabue’s celebrated ‘Madonna’ is carried in procession through the streets of Florence; in front of the ‘Madonna’, and crowned with laurels, walks Cimabue with his pupil Giotto; behind are Arnolfo de Lapo, Gaddo Gaddi, Andrea Tafi, Nicola Pisano, Buffalmacco, Simone Memmi. In the right corner is...
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Paintings previously owned by Frederic, Lord Leighton
Possibly by Jacopo Tintoretto
The story of Jupiter and Semele is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The god Jupiter takes the mortal woman Semele as his mistress and makes her pregnant. When Jupiter’s wife, the goddess Juno, finds out, she disguises herself and suggests to Semele that her lover may not really be Jupiter. She tells...
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