About twenty colorfully dressed people fill a long room behind an old man and young woman standing before a bishop in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale or ash-white skin, and their clothing is in shades of golden yellow, raspberry pink, pumpkin orange, teal, sea blue, or pea green. The men wear tunics and leggings or robes, and some have turbans or feathered hats. The women wear gowns and white or sheer head scarves. The man at the center of the composition, the bishop, wears a pearl-white robe and conical mitre hat. His white hair falls past his shoulders, and he has a…
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The Marriage of the Virgin

Luca Signorelli (Cortonese, 1445/1450 - 1523)

c. 1490/1491

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 21.6 x 48 cm (8 1/2 x 18 7/8 in.) ; framed: 34.6 x 61 x 5.1 cm (13 5/8 x 24 x 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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