Beneath two tall, tower-like structures, thirteen men, women, and children gather to give or receive food and foodstuff, all against a shiny gold background in this vertical painting. All the people have light skin tinged with green. To the left of center and under the left structure, an older, bearded man and woman have flat, round halos punched with rings of tiny circles. The man, Joachim, stands with his body angled to our left as he looks down to a group of five people gathered along the left edge of the painting. Joachim has shoulder-length, curly, gray hair and a long, wavy beard. His…
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Joachim and Anna Giving Food to the Poor and Offerings to the Temple

Andrea di Bartolo (Sienese, active from 1389 - died 1428)

c. 1400/1405

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 44.1 × 32.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.) ; overall: 45.7 × 34 × 0.6 cm (18 × 13 3/8 × 1/4 in.) ; framed: 50.48 × 38.42 × 6.35 cm (19 7/8 × 15 1/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
Sienese
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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