Who's Looking?

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Why are these Renaissance fresco-men looking at us so intently?

It's because they are the painters themselves:










Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556)

Miracles of Saint Brigid of Ireland, 1524, fresco, Oratorio Suardi, Trescore

Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449–1494)

The Adoration of the Magi, 1488, fresco, Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence 

Filippo Lippi (Fra Lippi) (1406-1469)

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1424-26 and 1489-91, fresco,

Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence 

Michelangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (1475-1564)

The Last Judgment,  1537-1541, fresco, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

Giovanni Bazzi, also called Il Sodoma (1477-1549)

Scenes from the life of St Benedict, 1503-1508,

The Cloister, Monteoliveto Maggiore, fresco  

Benozzo Gozzoli (born Benozzo di Lese di Sandro Alessio) (1420-1497)

Procession of the Magi, 1459-1460, fresco,

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence 

Bernardino di Betto, called Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio (1454–1513)

Annunciation, 1501, fresco,

Cappella Baglioni, Collegiata di Santa Maria Maggiore, Spello

Luca Signorelli (1445-1523)

Sermon and Deeds of the Antichrist, 1499-1502,

fresco, Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto

Masaccio (born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone) (1401-1428)

 Resurrection of the Son of Theophilus, 1425- 1427, fresco,

Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence