Shown from the waist up, a pale-skinned man with long, honey-blond hair and beard faces us in front of a gold background in this vertical painting. The man has a long face and nose, with closed peach-colored lips, which turn slightly down at the corners. Almond-shaped, hazel-brown eyes under arched brows stare over our left shoulder. His rose-pink robe is covered by a spruce-blue mantle that drapes over the left shoulder, on our right, and wraps around the waist. The robe and mantle are trimmed with gold. His right hand, on our left, is raised with the index and middle fingers extended up.…
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Christ Blessing

painter Grifo di Tancredi (Italian, active 1271 - 1303 (or possibly 1328))

c. 1310

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface (top of gilding): 73 × 52.6 cm (28 3/4 × 20 11/16 in.) ; painted surface (including painted border): 75.6 × 52.6 cm (29 3/4 × 20 11/16 in.) ; overall: 78.2 × 55.5 × 1.5 cm (30 13/16 × 21 7/8 × 9/16 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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
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