This painting features five people sitting or kneeling alongside a brown bird. In the center, a woman in a red gown holds an open book, looking downward. She wears a white head-covering and a dark green shawl. To her left, a man with a dark beard wears a red tunic and wide-brimmed red hat, while to her right, another bearded man in a bright green fur-lined cloak looks towards the woman, one hand flat on his chest. A child in white stands to the right of the woman in front of the man in the green cloak, his hand in the open book the woman holds, looking down into the pages. The woman and the…
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Saint Mary Salome and Her Family

Bernhard Strigel (German, 1460/1461 - 1528)

c. 1520/1528

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 125 x 65.7 cm (49 3/16 x 25 7/8 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-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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