Domenico Ghirlandaio, Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, Sassetti Chapel panel, altarpiece (1485)

Ridolfo Ghirlandaio was the son of Domenico. On the death of his father, from whom he may have learned the rudiments of painting, he continued his studies in the family workshop wi...

Together with Cosmè Tura and Ercole de’Roberti (also represented in this Collection), Francesco del Cossa was the most important artist in Ferrara and Bologna in the second half of...

Together with Cosmè Tura and Ercole de’Roberti (also represented in this Collection), Francesco del Cossa was the most important artist in Ferrara and Bologna in the second half of...

This panel, was which formerly in the Dixon collection in the UK, was acquired by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1979. Despite its small size the artist was easily able ...

Saint Catherine, who was canonised in 1461 by Pope Pius II, was born in Siena around 1347. Despite the opposition of her family, who wished her to marry and form a family, she ente...

This panel relates to a work of the same subject commissioned from Rubens by the Confraternity of Saint Roch in Aalst. The commission was for a painting for an altarpiece dedicated...

During the 15th century Johann Koerbecke was the most important artist in the Westphalian city of Munster. He trained in the workshop of his father, Hermann Koerbecke, and took ove...

Barthel Bruyn was the most important artist in Cologne during the first half of the 16th century. Throughout his career he devoted himself primarily to religious painting for chape...