A person holding a flag, Saint Ursula, stands in front of a cloth held up by two winged angels as a fourth person, much smaller in scale, kneels in the lower right corner in this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. Saint Ursula and the angels have blond hair, rosy cheeks, delicate features, flat gold halos, and they wear leaf-green garments. Saint Ursula stands with her body facing us but she turns to look off to our right and slightly down. A raspberry-red cloak lined with white, perhaps fur, is draped across her shoulders. She holds a bunch of that fabric with her left hand,…
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Saint Ursula with Two Angels and Donor

Benozzo Gozzoli (Florentine, c. 1421 - 1497)

c. 1455/1460

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 44.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.) ; framed: 60.6 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm (23 7/8 x 16 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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