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Head of a Tonsured, Beardless Saint

Domenico Veneziano (active 1438–1461)

The National Gallery, London

Head of a Tonsured, Beardless Saint

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This is a fragment of a wall-painting made using the fresco technique (painting directly onto wet plaster). It comes from a 'street tabernacle' -- an outdoor religious painting -- that showed the Virgin and Child surrounded by two saints.It is the head of one of the saints. We can't identify him from his head alone but his darkly coloured robes and tonsure (the central section of his hair is shaved, a sign of devotion among members of religious orders) suggest he was a friar, a follower of either Saint Benedict or Saint Augustine. He resembles images of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, an Augustinian.The tabernacle was painted on the first floor exterior wall of a house in Florence so that it would have been visible to passersby.

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Title

Head of a Tonsured, Beardless Saint

Date

about 1440-4

Medium

Fresco, transferred to tile

Measurements

H 43 x W 35.5 cm

Accession number

NG766

Acquisition method

Bought, 1867

Work type

Painting

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The National Gallery, London

Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England

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Artist or maker

Domenico Veneziano

active 1438–1461

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