Giovanni di Paolo
1398–1482 · Late Gothic and Early Renaissance · 9 works
Giovanni di Paolo turned religious stories into vivid sequences of gestures and places. Working in fifteenth-century Siena, he made altarpieces and smaller narrative panels in which patterned landscapes can feel as expressive as the figures. A person may appear more than once within a scene, allowing several moments to unfold on a single surface. The panels of Saint John the Baptist’s life show this storytelling clearly. They belonged to a larger ensemble, so each surviving picture is both an independent composition and a fragment of a longer narrative.
9 works · 1440–1460
In Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness, find each appearance of John. How does the landscape connect the separate moments?
1440–1460 · 6 works
Walk these 6In the museum: Late Gothic and Early Renaissance room · 6 works
1457–1460 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: Late Gothic and Early Renaissance room · 3 works
Albrecht Altdorfer
Head of a Young Man, 1507
Albrecht Dürer
The Virgin with the Dragonfly, c. 1495
Daniel Hopfer, I
Adam, by 1522
