Two pairs of people and a group line a rocky path that stretches away from us in this hilly, horizontal landscape painting. We look slightly down on the path as it travels steeply from the bottom center of the canvas to about the center of the composition. Dark trees and bushes are tucked on top of and between knolls and mounds rising to each side of the path. A pink-stone building with a crenelated walled area and a tower is to the left of center, and a second building is tucked in a shallow valley to the right. The hills pile up as they reach the horizon, which comes almost to the top of…
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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 41.9 cm (11 x 16 1/2 in.) ; framed (upper left canvas, framed with 1939.1.344.a 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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