1513

Showing 6 works across all media from 1513

Religious painting · High Renaissance

The Virgin and Child with St Anne

Leonardo da Vinci

1513 · Louvre, Paris

Three generations nest into one shifting pyramid, and Leonardo kept reworking it for years without ever calling it finished.

★ 7.8

Sculpture · High Renaissance

Rebellious Slave

Michelangelo

1513 · Louvre, Paris

Carved for a papal tomb that kept shrinking until it was abandoned. What the bonds mean is still argued, but the strain is unmistakable.

★ 6.7

Portrait · Northern Renaissance

The Ugly Duchess

Quentin Matsys

1513 · National Gallery, London

Satire on old age aping youth, in a headdress two generations out of date. Tenniel used her for the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland.

★ 6.5

Mythological painting · High Renaissance

Perseus Rescuing Andromeda

Piero di Cosimo

1513 · Uffizi Gallery, Florence

The sea-monster is part fish and part beast and thoroughly invented, and some of the onlookers on the shore have started playing music.

★ 6.1

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince · 1513

★ 2.2

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Whoever is responsible for another's becoming powerful ruins himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince · 1513

★ 1.4