About a dozen women, babies, and men gather in small groups across interior spaces with a bedroom to one side and a covered space to the other in this vertical panel painting. The women have nearly white-colored skin, and the men and children have pale skin, sometimes tinged with gray. The bed spans the left two-thirds of the composition. A woman lies under a vibrant red coverlet and white sheets pulled up to her chest. A white veil covers her head, forehead, and neck, and she wears a white, long-sleeved gown. Her shoulders rest up on pillows, and her head is surrounded by a shiny gold halo.…
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The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist

painter Giovanni Baronzio (Italian, active c. 1320 - 1350)

c. 1335

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 46.4 × 38.3 cm (18 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.) ; overall: 48.8 × 40.7 cm (19 3/16 × 16 in.) ; framed: 55.7 x 48.1 x 5.1 cm (21 15/16 x 18 15/16 x 2 in.)
Culture
Rimini
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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