A person walks across a rocky path with a fortified, wall-enclosed town in the distance in this horizontal painting. The person wears a dark green robe and pink hood or cap, carries a yellow sack slung over one shoulder, and uses a walking stick. Boulders surge to either side of the path, and leafy green trees grow up the right side of the composition. Several swans float on a lake just beyond the trees. Painted in shades of gray, a person rides a camel just beyond a boulder to the left. Other forms painted with thin strokes of red or black could be people walking through the landscape in…
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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 right canvas, framed with 1939.1.344.a and .b): 86.68 x 113.67 x 6.03 cm (34 1/8 x 44 3/4 x 2 3/8 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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