The work is not thought to have originally been painted around 1434 (a few years after the similar painting in the Uffizi) for the convent of San Domenico of Fiesole, near Florence, where Fra Angelico ...

Paintings of the coronation of the Virgin Mary typically show her being crowned by Christ and God the Father, often accompanied by the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove. This work, however, mixes ...

The artist has incised parallel lines into the gold leaf of the crowns to indicate areas of shadow (see, for example, the inner rim of the Virgin’s crown). This painting shows the coronation of the ...

Velázquez's coronation of the Virgin is exceptional for being a rare religious work by an artist better known for his portraits, and for the air of naturalness and simplicity not found in works by ...

Earlier Renaissance painting would have been marked by symmetries, balance and much more “proportion.” Bitti’s “Coronation of the Virgin” dates from the late 1500s. Note the year ...

The first official portrait of Charles since his coronation sent a shockwave through ... too keen to show me all the crazy stuff about the painting on TikTok," he told The Sunday Times on May ...

The Ampulla was made for Charles II's coronation, but its shape harks back to an earlier version and a legend that the Virgin Mary appeared to St Thomas a Becket in the 12th Century and gave him a ...

The paintings have been most recently conserved in 1974 and 2008. Bartolomeo Vivarini's oil on wood painting of the Virgin and Child, Venetian School about 1480, hangs on the altar in the Abbey's Lady ...

41409) General Description: The Latin inscription on top of the panel characterizes this painting as “the threefold devout contemplation of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary ... and end with the ...

The first official portrait of King Charles III since his coronation last year was unveiled ... The seven-and-a half-foot-tall painting shows Charles facing the viewer head-on, wearing the uniform ...

This can be translated as "From the burden of my sore transgressions sweet virgin deliver me; make my peace with Christ and blot out my iniquity." The painting was cleaned in the 1970s. Christ with St ...

The King and Queen Consort will travel to the coronation at Westminster Abbey ... under a thin layer of gold and panels covered in paintings. It may be uncomfortable but it is a rolling work ...