The Collection: Paintings

The Courtauld’s Renaissance collection comprises important paintings from both Italy and northern Europe. It includes one of the few altarpieces by Botticelli to be housed in a museum collection together with works by Venetian masters such as Lorenzo Lotto and Tintoretto. Highlights of the northern schools include one Cranach’s greatest and most alluring paintings Adam and Eve,and two rare panels by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Selected Renaissance paintings from the collection:

• The Seilern Triptych by Robert Campin (c.1425)
  
• The Trinity with Saints by Alessandro Filipepi Botticelli (1491-94)
  
• Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1526)