Two men are situated inside a coral-red building that fills the left two-thirds of this composition, and two men are shown in a body of water in a landscape to our right in this horizontal painting. The building recedes sharply into the space of the landscape without seeming to be part of it, and the men in the water seem a little too large in relation to the pool, trees, and the building to our left. The men all have pale skin and wear ivory-white robes. The red, arched building spans the entire height of the painting. Inside, a bearded man with a halo sits on a bench facing our right in…
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Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus

painter Fra Filippo Lippi (Florentine, c. 1406 - 1469)

c. 1445/1450

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 40 x 69.5 cm (15 3/4 x 27 3/8 in.) ; framed: 49.5 x 79.4 x 6 cm (19 1/2 x 31 1/4 x 2 3/8 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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