A young, nude, light-skinned man stands in the center of a rocky, mountainous landscape in this square painting. The man’s muscular body faces us but he turns his head in profile to our right as he looks down at the coral-red cloth he drops onto the ground. He is cleanshaven with prominent eyebrows, a straight nose, and his lips are slightly parted. He has thick, reddish-brown hair with bangs across his forehead, and there is a red-edged, glimmering, gold, plate-like halo across the crown of his head. He leans slightly to the side as he drops the red cloth onto a white one, already on the…
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Saint John in the Desert

Domenico Veneziano (Florentine, c. 1410 - 1461)

c. 1445/1450

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 28.4 x 31.8 cm (11 3/16 x 12 1/2 in.) ; framed: 40.6 x 44.1 x 5.1 cm (16 x 17 3/8 x 2 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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