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Two pale-skinned men face each other across surging waves in a cove surrounded by trees in this horizontal painting. Tall trees to each side have dark, gnarled trunks and small, olive-green leaves. They curve toward each other like parentheses. Swirling sage-green and muted turquoise water kicks up waves highlighted with ivory white. The water heaves in great waves back into the distance where it meets a blue form, which could be a mountain or more water. The men are small in scale within the domineering landscape. One man stands on the shore near the lower left corner. His topaz-blue cloak…

Christ at the Sea of Galilee

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667 - 1749)

c. 1740 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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