Italian, Milanese
Paintings by Italian, Milanese
![Bona of Savoy (?)](/media/33574/n-2251-00-000010-hd.jpg?cc=0,0.012551859395036584,0,0.55296070000754316&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543ef021f0b0&bgcolor=fff)
In this almost life-sized portrait, an elegantly dressed lady holds a bunch of columbines. She is shown in profile, as was conventional for formal aristocratic portraits. It’s an unusual work: it’s painted in on canvas rather than wooden boards, the usual support for Renaissance paintings. It’s a...
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![Female Members of a Confraternity](/media/32853/n-0780-00-000010-hd.jpg?rxy=0.460352422907489,0.37375178316690444&width=576&height=576&v=1d653dc40674ab0&bgcolor=fff)
Fourteen smartly dressed ladies kneel in prayer. They are female members of a confraternity (a quasi-religious brotherhood), praying to their patron saint; its men are shown in another painting in the National Gallery’s collection.We are not sure who this picture is by, but it is thought to have...
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![Male Members of a Confraternity](/media/32852/n-0779-00-000009-hd.jpg?rxy=0.47577092511013214,0.36605890603085556&width=576&height=576&v=1d653dc3dbfd160&bgcolor=fff)
Nine men kneel in prayer, heads bare, hats in hands. Behind them stands a saint – we can only see his hand – wearing a brown garment (perhaps the habit worn by members of a religious order). It is possibly Saint Francis, who founded the Franciscan Order, presenting the men to the object of their...
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![The Virgin and Child](/media/33509/n-2089-00-000011-hd.jpg?cc=0.078020508247882314,0.070661175752733382,0.086045474810521508,0.40806785557956132&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543e48926eb0&bgcolor=fff)
This work is a badly damaged fragment of a fresco. It shows the Virgin holding the naked infant Christ on her knee. The Christ Child raises his hand in a gesture of blessing while looking down towards the left. The direction of his gaze and that of the Virgin suggests that he may originally have...
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