The head and pale face of a bearded man with a ring of interwoven branches of thorns over his chin-length, wavy, reddish-brown hair floats against a white cloth that has been hung over a wooden rod in this vertical painting. The cloth fills the composition. At its center, the man’s head faces us and he looks down with heavy-lidded, brown eyes. His lips are parted, and his cheeks are slightly sunken and shaded with pale lilac purple under high cheekbones. Blood drips down the man’s pallid forehead from the thorns. A brown spot high on his right cheek, on our left, might be a bruise or injury.…
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The Veil of Veronica

Domenico Fetti (Roman, 1589 - 1623)

c. 1618/1622

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (original panel): 80.6 x 66.3 cm (31 3/4 x 26 1/8 in.) ; overall (with non-original wood strips): 82.5 x 68 cm (32 1/2 x 26 3/4 in.) ; framed: 100.7 x 86.4 cm (39 5/8 x 34 in.)
Culture
Roman
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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