1450s · Skopia

Showing 6 works across all media from the 1450s

1452 · Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence), Florence

Ghiberti gave twenty-seven years to these doors, and the name comes from Michelangelo, who is supposed to have said they were fit for paradise.

★ 8.6

1450 · Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

All seven sacraments happen at once inside one Gothic church, with the Crucifixion looming over the nave to show where they get their power.

★ 7.0

1452 · Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

The Virgin is said to be the king's dead mistress, painted with a shaved forehead and one breast bared, ringed by red cherubim.

★ 6.9

1459 · Louvre, Paris

Soldiers throw dice for Christ's robe on a paved Golgotha. This panel was sawn off an altarpiece by Napoleon's looters and never returned.

★ 6.3

1450 · Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Gilded hems, fluttering wings, a walled garden behind. Lippi was a friar with a worldly streak and it shows in the ornament.

★ 5.2

1452 · San Marco Museum, Florence

Christ stands to place the host on each tongue exactly as a priest does at Mass, in a bare cell-like room with stools.

★ 4.7