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The painting was by Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai, or Masaccio. It describes a scene in which Jesus tells Peter to find a coin in the mouth of a fish to pay for the temple tax.
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It is a set of three paintings by Paolo Uccello that shows what happened during the Battle of San Romano. They show the development for perspective and are unsual since they were not commisioned by a church.
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An oil on wood painting by Hugo van der Goes that was commissioned for the church of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. He and his two sons are in the painting on the left side and his wife and daughter are one the right side. In the painting three sheperds are kneeling in front of Jesus as a child with angels surrounding them.
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The Birth of Venus is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo de' Medici. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore.
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Primavera, also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted 1482, it is "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world."
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By Perugino, the painting refers to the "keys of the kingdom of heaven" being given to Peter. The keys represent the power of letting others go to heaven and to forgive.
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The Last Supper is by Leonardo da Vinci and is made to show the different reactions of the apostles when Jesus said one of them would betray him. Leonardo made the lighting focus on Jesus and shows references to the number 3 (represents Christian belief in the Holy Trinity).
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this piece was painted on an oil canvas and was painted by Titan
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This altarpiece of which this is a direct replica was commissioned from Luini in 1523 for the church of San Magno in the northern Italian town of Legnano.
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Lorenzo Lotto has created a paradigmatic marriage painting, the visual equivalent of a poetic epithalamium, or marriage poem. These lyrical, ancient poems or songs were performed at weddings and often began with verses in which Venus was roused from her bower to bless the bride and groom.
