A young woman with pale skin and flushed cheeks stands in a landscape looking to our upper left in this round-topped vertical painting. Her body faces us in the center of the scene. Her fingers are interlaced at her waist, and her head tips slightly to our left. Honey-brown hair cascades over her shoulders, and her hazel eyes roll up under thin brows. She has a short nose and a small, pale pink mouth. A translucent scarf is tied around the full-length, pine-green mantle that drapes across her shoulders and wraps around the V-neck of her rose-red robe. A wine-red inset fills the neckline, and…
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The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John, Saint Jerome, and Saint Mary Magdalene [right panel]

painter Pietro Perugino (Umbrian, c. 1450 - 1523)

c. 1482/1485

Medium
oil on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
right panel: 95 × 30.1 cm (37 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.) ; framed: 134 × 165.1 × 17.15 cm (52 3/4 × 65 × 6 3/4 in.)
Culture
Umbrian
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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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