1435

Showing 5 works across all media from 1435

Religious painting · Northern Renaissance

The Descent from the Cross (van der Weyden)

Rogier van der Weyden

1435 · El Prado, Madrid

The fainting Virgin curves in an exact echo of her dead son, the stroke that made van der Weyden the most copied painter in the north.

★ 9.1

History painting · Early Renaissance

The Battle of San Romano (Louvre)

Paolo Uccello

1435 · Louvre, Paris

Broken lances lie along the receding lines of a perspective grid. Vasari said Uccello sat up all night muttering about how sweet it was.

★ 7.2

Portrait · Early Renaissance

Portrait of a Young Princess

Pisanello

1435 · Louvre, Paris

She sits in profile against a hedge of carnations with butterflies going past, a sprig of juniper on her sleeve punning on her name.

★ 6.5

Religious painting · Early Renaissance

Banquet of Herod

Masolino

1435 · Church of Saints Stephen and Lawrence, Castiglione Olona

The feast on the left, the severed head delivered on the right, both staged in a colonnade built with Masaccio's new perspective.

★ 4.8

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

1435

★ 1.9