Shown from the hips up, a woman holds an ivory-white, cylindrical jar against a gold background on a panel shaped to come to a sharp point at the top of this vertical painting. The pale skin of the woman is faintly tinted with green. Her body faces us, and she looks at or past us with wide, hooded, light brown eyes under faint brows. She has a long, straight nose, and her pink bow-shaped lips are closed. The woman wears a tomato-red mantle that covers her head and drapes down past her shoulders and over her matching dress. Locks of blond hair show under the mantle on the sides of her face.…
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Saint Mary Magdalene, with an Angel [left panel]

Pietro Lorenzetti (Sienese, active 1306 - 1345)

probably 1340

Medium
tempera on panel transferred to canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 89.2 × 41 cm (35 1/8 × 16 1/8 in.) ; overall: 92.1 × 44.1 cm (36 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Frieda Schiff Warburg in memory of her husband, Felix M. Warburg
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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