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Source Description
This fresco fragment, perhaps from Salonika (modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece), depicts a curly-haired angel wearing a robe with a jeweled neckline. The smooth modeling of the face evokes the idealized, heavenly nature of this figure.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
26806
label
Head of an Archangel
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
26806
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Head of an Archangel
description
This fresco fragment, perhaps from Salonika (modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece), depicts a curly-haired angel wearing a robe with a jeweled neckline. The smooth modeling of the face evokes the idealized, heavenly nature of this figure.
provenance
[Said to be from Thessaloniki [Salonika]]; Joseph Brummer, New York, October 28, 1923, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. 770, 771, or 772 - sold together as lot]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, December 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
14th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
fragments
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
15.6
height
11.1
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6 1/8 x 4 3/8 in. (15.6 x 11.1 cm)
Source extras
cul
Orthodox Eastern
inscriptions
[Transcription] Scalloped circular sticker on reverse in lower left corner: DOUANE CENTRALE PARIS
med
possibly tempera on plaster
creator_ids
6640
collection_ids
none
exhibition_ids
358
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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e18cc501c04a8d6c