A pale-skinned woman stands holding a cross in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us but she tips her head to our right and looks off in that direction with light brown, wide-set, large eyes. She has a long, straight nose, pale pink lips, and a square jawline. Her thick blond hair is pulled back and curls fall alongside her face and fall down to her shoulders. She wears a gold crown and gold breastplate ornamented with pearls and gems. Her lapis-blue gown is slit along the long sleeves and puffs of white linen are pulled through the openings. A…
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Saint Helena

Cima da Conegliano (Venetian, c. 1459 - 1517 or 1518)

c. 1495

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 40.2 × 32.2 cm (15 13/16 × 12 11/16 in.) ; framed: 61.28 × 53.34 × 8.89 cm (24 1/8 × 21 × 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
Venetian
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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