1520

Showing 4 artworks from 1520

Religious painting · High Renaissance

The Transfiguration

Raphael

1520 · Vatican Museums, Rome

Raphael left it unfinished when he died in 1520, and it was hung above his body while he lay in state.

★ 8.4

Sculpture · Benin (Edo)

Queen Mother Pendant Mask (Iyoba)

Artist unknown

1520 · British Museum, London

The oba wore it at his hip, its crown made of tiny Portuguese heads. A British expedition looted it from Benin in 1897.

★ 7.9

Religious painting · Northern Renaissance

Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

Albrecht Altdorfer

1520 · National Gallery, London

The episode appears in no Gospel at all, and Altdorfer nearly buries the figures under a forest of enormous trees and luminous sky.

★ 5.2

Religious painting · Renaissance

The Rest on the Flight to Egypt with Saint Francis

Correggio

1520 · Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Joseph reaches up to pull down dates from a palm while Saint Francis kneels at the side, added for the chapel that ordered it.

★ 5.2