Renaissance Paintings
Baptism of Christ (circa 1710)
Artist: Arent de Gelder (1645-1727)
In the foreground of a hilly landscape, Christ is baptised by St. John, amid a circle of onlookers. The two figures are brilliantly lit by rays from the disk high above, against general darkness. (from the Fitzwilliam Museum catalogue, by H. Gerson and J.W. Goodison); Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeMadonna col bambino e San Giovannino (circa 1400)
Artist: Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio or Bastiano Mainardi or Domenico Ghirlandaio (1645-1727)
This is the painting titled "The Madonna with Saint Giovannino", from around the 15th century, most likely painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio. The painting depicts Mary mother of Jesus looking down while in the background you can see a clear picture of what appears to be a UFO flying above while a man on a ledge blocks the sun with his hand and stares at the strange flying object in the sky. On Ghirlandaio's Adoration of The Child from Pinacoteca Ambrosiana we can also clearly see a strange "flying object" - a red animal flying in the sky.The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius (circa 1482)
Künstler: Carlo Crivelli (circa 1435-circa 1495)
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius is an altarpiece showing an artistic adaptation of the Annunciation. It was painted for the Church of SS. Annunziata in the Italian town of Ascoli Piceno, in the region of Marche, to celebrate the self-government granted to the town in 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV. The painting was removed to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan in 1811, but passed to Auguste-Louis de Sivry in 1820, and had reached England by the mid-19th century. It has been housed in the National Gallery in London since it was donated by Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton in 1864.Cave Paintings
