Head of a Saint
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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27096
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object
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normalized
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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.
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rightsUri
CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
1
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.331_Fnt_BW_5470.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.331_Fnt_BW_5470.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.331_Fnt_BW_5470.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.331 |
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