In a landscape with chiseled, rocky mountains beyond a grassy meadow and stream, two men wearing dove-gray robes react to a flame-red cross in the sky in this nearly square painting. Both men have pale skin and their hair has been cut into a ring around each head. Their loose robes are cinched at the waist, and both have bare feet. The man to our left, with hands raised, kneels with his body angled to our right, facing the red cross in the sky, in the upper right corner of the painting. He has gray or blond hair and a flat gold halo edged with red. Five thin gold lines emanate from the red…
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Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Domenico Veneziano (Florentine, c. 1410 - 1461)

c. 1445/1450

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 27.5 x 30.5 cm (10 13/16 x 12 in.) ; framed: 40.6 x 44.5 x 5.1 cm (16 x 17 1/2 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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