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Source Description
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 him an introspective air.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
27096
label
Head of a Saint
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obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
27096
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Head of a Saint
description
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 him an introspective air.
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
fresco
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
15.2
height
8.9
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 6 x 3 1/2 in. (15.2 x 8.9 cm)
Source extras
cul
Orthodox Eastern
inscriptions
Residue of three stickers on lower portion of reverse.
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
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photo
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c634085919d35ca2