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On the right side of this horizontal painting, two light-skinned men stand close to us on a spit of land separated from the rest of the scene by stretch of water that leads back to a town on the far shore. People gather on and around two boats floating in the water between the spit of land to our right and a copse of trees to our left. Beginning with the pair of men to our right: one man looking toward us has a broad forehead and grizzled blond beard. He wears a brick-red and canary-yellow turban, a yellow and crimson-red striped doublet with puffy sleeves, and a red codpiece. His…
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The Trojans Repairing Their Ships in Sicily

painter Dosso Dossi (Ferrarese, active 1512 - 1542)

c. 1520

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 58.7 × 87.6 cm (23 1/8 × 34 1/2 in.) ; framed: 83.5 × 205.3 × 8.5 cm (32 7/8 × 80 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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