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A woman sitting close to us in front of a deep landscape holds up a white cloth with the image of a man’s face on it in this vertical painting. The woman and the image on the cloth both have pale skin, hooded eyes, and long, straight noses. The woman’s shoulders are squared toward us, and her legs are tucked under her. Her head tips slightly to our right. Her eyes are downcast, and her bow-shaped lips are parted. She wears a white, turban-like headdress with a white veil covering her neck and upper chest. Her rose-pink dress is mostly covered by a voluminous, lapis-blue robe falling from the…

Saint Veronica [obverse]

Hans Memling (Netherlandish, active c. 1465 - 1494)

c. 1470/1475 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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