Two panels on a gilded, carved, wooden frame are swung open like shutters to show a bearded, gray-haired man wearing robes standing in each wing, on either side of panel with a pointed, arched top showing a woman holding a baby. In a three-lobed shape in the apex above the woman and child, a nude man crosses his arms over his chest. All the people have pale, ivory-colored skin. Gold halos encircle each person’s head and the background of all three panels is bright gold. The woman in the center panel is shown from the hips up with her body facing us. The deep blue mantle that drapes over her…
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Saint John the Evangelist [right panel]

Nardo di Cione (Florentine, active from c. 1340; died 1365/1366)

c. 1360

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 45.4 × 12.4 cm (17 7/8 × 4 7/8 in.) ; overall: 49 × 17 × 1.8 cm (19 5/16 × 6 11/16 × 11/16 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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