MASOLINO DA PANICALE

Masolino da Panicale (Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini) (c.1383-c.1447).

Masolino was probably the first painter to make use of a central Vanishing point in his 1423 painting St. Peter Healing a Cripple and the Raising of Tabitha.

DIEGO RIVERA

Diego Rivera (1886-1957).

BENOZZO GOZZOLI

Benozzo Gozzoli (c.1421-1497).

GRECCIO

Greccio is an old hilltown and comune of the province of Rieti in the Italian region of Lazio, overhanging the Velino river on a spur of the Monti Sabini, a sub-range of the Apennines, about 16 kilometres (10 miles) by road northwest of Rieti, the nearest large town.

Greccio was founded, according to tradition, as a Greek colony.

The earliest records date back to the Tenth and Eleventh centuries. The Benedictine Monk, Gregory of Catino (1062-1133) refers to the town of Greccio (curte de Greccia) in his work “Summary Farfense”. From the remains of the ancient buildings it shows that Greccio became a fortified medieval castle surrounded by walls and protected by six towers fortress.

Greccio was the place where, in December 1223, St. Francis devised the first living crib. The tradition continues there to this day, and a memorial of St. Francis, the Santuario di S. Francesco, may be visited.

THE SÜMELA MONASTERY

The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Melá Mountain within the Pontic Mountains range, in the Maçka district of Trabzon Province in modern Turkey.

The monastery was founded in AD 386 during the reign of the Emperor Theodosius I. During its long history, the monastery fell into ruin several times and was restored by various emperors.

It reached its present form in the 13th century.

Below, a vandalised fresco.

 

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA

Piero della Francesca (1415-1492).

DOMENICO GHIRLANDAIO

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494).

 

POMPEII

“Basket of Figs”, before 79 AD.

FILIPPO LIPPI

Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469)
“Natività di Gesù”, 1467-1469.

ROSSO FIORENTINO

ROSSO FIORENTINO
Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (1494-1540).

FRA ANGELICO

FRA ANGELICO
Fra Angelico (Guido da Fiesole, Guido di Pietro Trosini) (1387-1455)
“Annunciation”, 1437-1446.