This painting shows an upper body portrait of a man with his head turned slightly to the left. The man has light skin, reddish-blond, shoulder-length hair, thin eyebrows, a long nose, and a light brown beard and mustache. He is dressed in a light pink robe with a decorative gold border around the neckline and a dark blue cloth draped over his left shoulder. He is holding a rolled scroll with both hands. There is a thin circle around his head, perhaps indicating a halo. The background of the painting is gold, inside of a decorative border in black, red, and light blue.
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Saint James Major

painter Grifo di Tancredi (Italian, active 1271 - 1303 (or possibly 1328))

c. 1310

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface (top of gilding): 62.2 × 34.8 cm (24 1/2 × 13 11/16 in.) ; painted surface (including painted border): 64.8 × 34.8 cm (25 1/2 × 13 11/16 in.) ; overall: 66.7 × 36.7 × 1.2 cm (26 1/4 × 14 7/16 × 1/2 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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