This painting depicts a long, horizontal landscape viewed from an elevated angle. On the left, by a group of green trees and bushes, several people stand around one person who is on the back of a white horse. They wear garments in shades of light red, dark green, and pale yellow. In the distance behind them, a gray castle is visible, and farther away boats sail across green water near tree-covered hills. In the center of the painting is a collection of massive gray rocks. A small yellow tent is at the bottom of the rocks, with a group of small people sitting or standing around it. To the…
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Scenes from a Legend

painter Giovanni Larciani (Master of the Kress Landscapes) (Florentine, 1484 - 1527)

probably c. 1515/1520

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 27.9 x 88.9 cm (11 x 35 in.) ; framed (lower canvas, framed with 1939.1.344.b and .c): 86.52 x 114.3 x 9.21 cm (34 1/16 x 45 x 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
Florentine
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
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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