• Thumbnail for Diptych by Giovanni da Rimini
    Among the paintings attributed to Giovanni da Rimini (fl. 1292–1336) are two panels from a former diptych, dated to 1300–1305, of which the left wing...
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    Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini. On 22 July 1444, his half-brother Oddantonio da Montefeltro, recently created Duke of Urbino by Pope Eugene IV, was assassinated...
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    panel, 248 × 170 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Diptych of the Count and Countess of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza – Oil on panel...
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  • Apostles Peter and Andrew (from the Maestà) 1308 c. 1300–05: Giovanni da Rimini paints his Diptych, Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and other Saints and...
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    Uffizi Gallery. Among the works that went to Florence is the diptych of the Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca. Other works of the Ducal Palace were...
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    Mona Lisa (category Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci)
    la Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance...
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  • Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (born 1406) 1469: Giovanni Francesco da Rimini – Italian painter (born 1420) 1468: Master E. S. – German engraver...
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    Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, with a composition which...
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    Saint John the Baptist (Leonardo) (category Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci)
    wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57...
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    Monte Cristo, Giordano Bruno, Judith beheading Holofernes, Francesca da Rimini, Lorenzino de' Medici, Rigoletto, Count Ugolino and others. From an iconographic...
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    by Jacques-Louis David; 1784; oil on canvas; height: 330 cm, width: 425 cm The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David Paintings by Leonardo da...
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    Sleeping Hermaphroditus (category Antiquities acquired by Napoleon)
    made and signed by Giovanni Francesco Susini, is now at the Metropolitan Museum. Another reduced-scale copy, this time produced in ivory by François Duquesnoy...
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  • and Andrew Robison, pgs 71-81 Osvald Sirén, Giuliano, Pietro and Giovanni da Rimini, Burlington Magazine, 1916. Ripanda, Jacopo, Concise Grove Dictionary...
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    owned by the Jesuit Order in Gozo, linking them with the cippi mentioned by Ciantar. Copies of the inscriptions, which had been made by Giovanni Uvit in...
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    The Continence of Scipio (Pittoni) (category Paintings by Giambattista Pittoni)
    painting by the Italian artist Giambattista Pittoni, from c. 1732–1735. This painting is the counterpart of Polyxena in Front of the Tomb of Achilles, by the...
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    Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter (Pittoni) (category Paintings by Giambattista Pittoni)
    Keys to Saint Peter or The Delivery of the Keys is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Giambattista Pittoni, from c. 1730–1735. It is held in...
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    Sleeping Ariadne (category Antiquities acquired by Napoleon)
    epigram, which passed until modern times for a Roman one, was composed by Giovanni Antonio Campani, a humanist at the court of Pius II who moved in the...
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    A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts (category Paintings by Sandro Botticelli)
    originally decorated Villa Lemmi, a country villa near Florence owned by Giovanni Tornabuoni, uncle of Lorenzo de' Medici and head of the Roman branch...
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    published a letter he had written to Sardinian antiquarian and politician Giovanni Spano, who had himself published the Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription...
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    months, on 24 May 1529, still Bishop-elect, he was appointed Bishop of Rimini by Pope Clement VII. In 1534 he was papal Majordomo, and was appointed Treasurer...
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    Statue of the Tiber river with Romulus and Remus (category Antiquities acquired by Napoleon)
    Greece. Romulus and Remus under an arm of the Tiber. The House of Troy sacked by the Greeks and Aeneas fleeing before founding Rome. The statue was discovered...
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  • Principal Monuments of France (category Paintings in the Louvre by French artists)
    ruins, established in France through Giovanni Paolo Panini and Claude Joseph Vernet. This trend was greatly supported by the development of archeology, which...
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