Welcome to this glorious exhibit in honor of the
Virgin Mary, Mother of God. We display hundreds of images of Our Lady
throughout this site, in every directory. We have three Madonna
galleries alone; in addition several galleries have Madonna paintings
on exhibit, such as the Baroque and Bouguereau Galleries. This exhibit
does not merely consist of paintings of the Mother of God that feature
either and or fruits and flowers, but landscapes and some that are
devoid of ornamentation or backgrounds - all beautiful works of art
that honor the Mother of God are gifts to us by God through the hands
of the artist and we present them here as bouquets of love back to her.
ICONS AND OR ICON LIKE --------- RAPHAEL
--------- MICHELANGELO --------- LEONARDO
DA VINCI
BOTTICELLI ---------
PERUGINO --------- FRA FILIPPO LIPPI --------- CARLO
CRIVELLI
OTHER ARTISTS
ICONS AND OR ICON LIKE
Icon [eikon]
is the Greek word for image. Although a work of art, the icon is
specifically executed for reverence and is considered a holy image in
of itself - the subject is always Catholic or Eastern Christian and is
designed to be a direct link with Christ, His Holy Mother and or the
Saints. The icons in this gallery are all versions of the Theotokos type, which is Greek for
Mary, the Mother of God.
ICON 1 --------- ICON 1, UNEMBELLISHED --------- ICON 2 --------- ICON 3 --------- ICON 4 --------- ICON 5 --------- ICON 6: LADY AMERICA ICON
RAPHAEL
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March
28, 1483 – April 6, 1520),
known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the
High Renaissance period. With Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he
forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was prolific - he had an unusually large
workshop - and
although he died at only 37, a vast body of work remains and in
relatively good condition. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, - the frescoed Raphael
Rooms - were the main and largest production of his career. He was very
influential in his lifetime. After his death Michelangelo's work
was more known until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael was held
up as the model for artists.
MADONNA
AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS --------- THE SMALL
COWPER MADONNA --------- MADONNA
AND CHILD WITH ST. JOHN
THE HOLY FAMILY (MADONNA OF THE ROSE) --------- MADONNA AND
CHILD WITH TWO YOUNG SAINTS
MADONNA OF THE MEADOW --------- THE ALDOBRANDINI
MADONNA --------- THE ALBA MADONNA
--------- THE TEMPI
MADONNA
THE LARGE COWPER MADONNA
--------- THE ORLEANS MADONNA --------- THE
SISTINE MADONNA
THE FOLIGNO MADONNA --------- LA BELLE
JARDINIERE --------- MADONNA DELLA SEDIA
REPRODUCTION
MICHELANGELO
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo,
was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High
Renaissance period. He is considered to be without equal in his
influence on the development of Western art.
Michelangelo was considered the greatest living
artist of his time
and still today he is deemed one of the greatest artists of all time. A
number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture are among
the most famous in the world.
The Pietà, one of his earliest
works, (1498–1499) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture and
makes its home in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. We feature it in
various directories. It is the first of a number of works of the same
theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French
cardinal Jean de Billheres, who was a
representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for
the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location,
the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th
century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus
on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. The theme is of
Northern origin, popular by that time in France but not yet in Italy.
Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is unique and
a very important work balancing the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism.
PIETÀ ON WHITE --------- PIETÀ: VIEW 2, CROPPED --------- THE BRUGES
MADONNA --------- THE BRUGES MADONNA: DETAIL
LEONARDO DA VINCI
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15,
1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor,
anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps
more than that of any other is the essence of the Renaissance humanist
genre ideal. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all
time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
THE BENOIS MADONNA --------- MADONNA LITTA --------- THE VIRGIN OF
THE ROCKS
BOTTICELLI
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Alessandro di Mariano di
Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c.
1445
– May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He
belonged to the Florentine
school, a movement that Giorgio
Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later as a "golden
age". Botticelli's paintings typify the linear grace of Early
Renaissance art.
MADONNA OF THE EUCHARIST
--------- MADONNA AND CHILD 1
--------- MADONNA AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS
MADONNA AND CHILD 2 --------- MADONNA
IN GLORY --------- MADONNA AND CHILD WITH ST.
JOHN
MADONNA OF THE ROSE GARDEN --------- MADONNA DEL LIBRO
BOTTICELLI
HOLY CARD 1 ---------------
BOTTICELLI
HOLY CARD 2 ---------------- BOTTICELLI
HOLY CARD 3
BOTTICELLI
HOLY CARD 4 ---------------- BOTTICELLI
HOLY CARD 5
PERUGINO
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Pietro
Vannucci's artistic name
characterizes him as from Perugia,
the chief city of the Umbria region of Italy, where he is thought to
have begun his study in painting. According to Vasari who was his
biographer, he apprenticed in the workshop of Andrea
del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da
Vinci, Domenico
Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Filippino Lippi
and others. He may have learned perspective
from Piero
della Francesca. He must have completed his apprenticeship by 1492,
since he was by then enrolled as a painter in the confraternity of St.
Luke. Perugino was one of the first Italian masters of oil painting.
MADONNA OF THE CONFRATERNITY OF
CONSOLAZIONE
--------- MADONNA AND CHILD
--------- VIRGIN AND CHILD ENTHRONED
VIRGIN
AND CHILD ENTHRONED: DETAIL 1 --------- VIRGIN AND
CHILD ENTHRONED: DETAIL 2 --------- THE VON BADEN
MADONNA VERSION 1
THE VON BADEN MADONNA VERSION 2 --------- MADONNA AND CHILD WITH ST. JOHN
MADONNA AND CHILD WITH ST. JOHN: DETAIL
LIPPI
VIEW A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Lippi was
born in 1406 in Florence, Italy. Both his parents died when he was
still a child. Mona Lapaccia, his aunt, then took charge of the boy. In
1420 he was admitted to the community of Carmelite
friars of the Priory of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Florence, taking
religious vows in the Order the following year, at the age of sixteen.
He would have been ordained a priest sometime around 1425, and was to remain in residence
in that priory until 1432. In his Lives
of the Artists, Vasari
says: "Instead of studying, he spent all his time scrawling pictures on
his own books and those of others." The prior decided to give him the
opportunity to learn painting. When he finally left the monastery, he
was not released from his vows; in a letter dated 1439 he describes
himself as the poorest friar of Florence, charged with the maintenance
of six marriageable nieces. In 1452 he was appointed chaplain to the
nuns at the Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene in Florence. He died in
1469.
LA
VERGINE, VERSION 1--------- LA
VERGINE, VERSION 2
--------- LA VERGINE, VERSION 2: DETAIL
MADONNA
AND CHILD 1 --------- VIRGIN AND
CHILD SURROUNDED BY ANGELS WITH SAINTS
MADONNA
AND CHILD 2
CRIVELLI
We could not locate a portrait of the artist.
Carlo
Crivelli, (1430/35-1494/95), is
deemed the most individual of the 15th-century Venetian painters, whose
highly personal and mannered style established Renaissance form into an
unusual expressionism.
<>Carlo was probably influenced in his early work by
Jacopo Bellini and by the school of Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini,
Paduan brothers living in Venice, whose works were characterized heavy
ornamentation. He later came into contact with the Paduan tradition of
the artist, Andrea Mantegna, a major 15th-century painter who
especially emphasized precise linear definition of form. Later, he
painted mainly in the cities of the Provincia di Ancona, to the south
of Venice, coming into little subsequent contact with major artistic
trends. Crivelli's works were exclusively sacred in subject.
MADONNA AND
CHILD WITH FRUIT AND BIRD --------- MADONNA AND
CHILD WITH APPLE
--------- MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINTS
MADONNA OF THE SWALLOW, VERSION 1
--------- MADONNA OF
THE SWALLOW, VERSION 2 --------- VIRGIN AND
CHILD SURROUNDED
ANGELS
MADONNA
DEL POLITTICO --------- VIRGIN AND
CHILD WITH APPLE
OTHER ARTISTS
MAINARDI:
MADONNA AND CHILD DETAIL
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