Central’s work is defined by its 15th century sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.
Virgin and Child
Central Italian
Miquelet Fowling Gun
Central Italian; Naples
Door Boss: Bust of a Satyress
Northern Italian
Casket
Italian; Sicily
Sinan Reis and Hayreddin Barbarossa
Italian
Madonna and Child
Young Woman with Hunter
Artist unknown (Italian, active 18th century)
Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus
Northern Italian; possibly Verona
Two Monks in a Landscape
Italian or Spanish
Mercury
Father Time
Portrait of a Warrior
Artist unknown (Italian, active 19th century)
Capital with Eagles
Southern Italian
Capital with Bull and Worker
Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: The Assumption of the Virgin
Italian; possibly Venice
Head of a Man
Panels from the Altarpiece of The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints: Bishop Saint
Italian Family, Chicago
Lewis Wickes Hine American, 1874–1940
Head (one of a pair)