A woman, Mary, sits surrounded by winged angels on a bank of clouds above a second woman who prays in front of a vast landscape in this vertical, arched painting. The women and angels all have pale skin and rosy cheeks. Mary and the angels take up the top two-thirds of the composition. Mary’s body is angled to our left, but she turns her face to us as she looks up. She wears a flax-yellow veil under an azure-blue mantle, which drapes over her shoulders and her ruby-red dress. Her hands are together in prayer, and her body, including one bare foot, is supported by the angels. Two older…
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The Apparition of the Virgin

Girolamo da Carpi (Ferrarese, 1501 - 1556)

1530/1540

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 199.4 x 131.1 cm (78 1/2 x 51 5/8 in.) ; framed: 225.1 x 158.8 x 11.8 cm (88 5/8 x 62 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)
Culture
Ferrarese
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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