A person wearing a black hood and cloak over a white long-sleeved garment stands in a wooden box, a pulpit, and speaks to a crowd gathered below in this vertical painting. The people all have pale skin tinged with green and pink cheeks. The preacher stands along the right side of the painting, his mouth open and both hands held up. He faces our left almost in profile, and his forehead, eyes, and mouth are deeply lined. Seventeen men and women sit or stand across the front of the crowd or at the far side of it. They wear garments in rose pink, fog gray, sapphire blue, vivid red, or black.…
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A Dominican Preaching

painter Agnolo degli Erri (Emilian, active 1440s - 1497)

c. 1470

Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 43 x 34 cm (16 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.) ; framed: 65.1 x 55.6 x 7.6 cm (25 5/8 x 21 7/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
Emilian
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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