A man with light skin with a greenish cast, wearing a slate-blue robe draped over a burgundy-red, ankle-length tunic, stands under an arched opening against a glimmering gold background in this vertical painting. The man’s body faces us but he turns his head to our right and looks off in that direction with dark eyes under curving, dark brows. Like his skin, his white hair and beard has a greenish cast, but is painted with long, curving white lines to indicate the flow of hair. He has a high forehead, a long, thin nose, and his small pink lips are closed. His left arm, on our right, is…
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Saint John the Evangelist

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: 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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