1452

Showing 3 works across all media from 1452

Sculpture · Early Renaissance

Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti

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

Religious painting · Northern Renaissance

Virgin and Child

Jean Fouquet

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

Religious painting · Early Renaissance

Communion of the Apostles

Fra Angelico

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