Head of a Saint

14th century

8.9 cm 15.2 cm

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This fresco fragment, perhaps from Salonika (modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece), displays striated modeling across the figure’s face and hair. This treatment, which is characteristic of Byzantine painting technique, emphasizes the inner psyche of the unidentified saint, lending...

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[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.
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