Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman in front of a gold background wears a rose-pink cloak over a sky-blue dress and holds up a tooth in a pair of pincers in this vertical painting. Her body faces us but she looks slightly off to our left with pale brown eyes under faint, arched brows. She has a long nose and her thin, coral-pink lips are closed. Her wavy, auburn-brown hair falls closely around her neck. Her light blue dress has narrow, V-shaped neckline and the high waistline is gathered under a white belt or sash to create the impression of vertical pleats. Her deep pink cloak is…
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Saint Apollonia

Attributed to painter Piero della Francesca (Italian, c. 1416/1417 - 1492)

c. 1455/1460

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 38.8 × 28 cm (15 1/4 × 11 in.) ; framed: 56.83 × 46.04 × 8.89 cm (22 3/8 × 18 1/8 × 3 1/2 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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