About fifty pale-skinned men, women, and children along with a giraffe, ox, and other animals gather in groups across a hilly landscape in this vertical painting. The people wear robes or dresses in shades of carnation pink, honey orange, sky blue, ruby red, leaf green, or golden brown. The people’s skin is painted pearl white or, in a few instances, tinged with gray. A crowd of eight men and women gather in the lower left quadrant behind a man who points to the right with a stick. Others sit on the ground or on rocks, stand at barrel-sized urns, or bend to the ground. A porcupine, white…
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The Gathering of Manna

Bachiacca (Florentine, 1494 - 1557)

1540/1555

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 111.8 x 95.3 cm (44 x 37 1/2 in.) ; framed: 141 x 123.2 x 8.3 cm (55 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 3 1/4 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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