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Twelve men and perhaps a child, who is bald and wears a brown robe, kneel, sit, or prostrate themselves in front of an altar piled with three skulls in this almost square painting. All the men appear to have pale, peachy skin and wear tattered robes with hoods in shades of sky or slate blue, peanut brown, terracotta orange, or silvery gray. The man closest to the altar holds up a long cross so it almost touches the skulls. He kneels and bows deeply so his hood completely hides his face. Three more men are near him in this grouping, and another rests on the broken base of a column as he…

The Adoration of the Skulls

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (French, 1700 - 1783)

c. 1733/1734 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Lewis Einstein

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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