A bearded, light-skinned man is shown striding to our left and looking in that direction between two columns supporting an arch in this vertical painting. The area around the man, within the arch, is bright gold. The man has a high forehead with short, brown hair, dark eyes under dark brows, a long, straight nose, a forked beard, and his pink lips are closed. He wears a marine-blue, ankle-length cloak over a long, rose-pink robe. Folds are painted with lines of darker blue and pink. He clenches a parchment-colored scroll in his left hand, on our right, down by his hip and grasps the edge of…
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Saint James Minor

Master of Saint Francis (Umbrian, active third quarter 13th century)

c. 1272

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 48.3 × 22.5 cm (19 × 8 7/8 in.) ; overall size: 49.8 × 24.2 cm (19 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.) ; framed: 63.5 × 38.1 × 9.21 cm (25 × 15 × 3 5/8 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
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