A woman climbs a ladder propped against a tall base of a white stone sculpture with a sledgehammer over one shoulder in this vertical, arched painting. The statue stands in a narrow town square hemmed in with buildings on each side. About a dozen people look on from the ground and from a balcony to our right. All the people have pale skin and wear dresses, robes, or cloaks in topaz blue, red, harvest yellow, or black. The base of the statue is twice as tall as any of the onlookers, and the statue atop is life sized. The base has eagles standing astride garlands, with flame-like leaves…
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Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol

painter Giovanni d'Alemagna (German, Venetian, 1400 - 1450)

c. 1442/1445

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 59.4 x 34.7 cm (23 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.) ; framed: 63.8 x 40.8 x 5.4 cm (25 1/8 x 16 1/16 x 2 1/8 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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