Shown against a shiny gold background, a woman wearing a royal-blue mantle that covers her head and body stands with her head tipped sharply to rest in one hand in this vertical painting. Her skin is pale with a noticeably green tint. She tilts her head to our right and looks in that direction with brown eyes. Her right cheek flushes with a bright pink circle, and three horizontal pale yellow strokes indicate wrinkles at the corner of the eye closer to us. Visible strokes in butter yellow define her chin, nose, wrinkles on her furrowed forehead, and neck. A dark violet-purple cloth hangs…
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The Mourning Madonna

Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes (Umbrian, active 1260s and 1270s)

c. 1270/1275

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
original panel: 81 × 31.7 cm (31 7/8 × 12 1/2 in.) ; overall: 82.4 x 33.5 cm (32 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.) ; framed: 90.8 x 40.6 x 6 cm (35 3/4 x 16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Culture
Umbrian
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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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