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Date : near 1530
Material : Oil painting on wood
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
Italy
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When Christ fell on the way to his Crucifixion, he was comforted by Saint Veronica, who wiped his face with her veil and then discovered his likeness miraculously imprinted on it. Corregio depicted Veronica's veil as the folder white cloth background that wraps around Christ's shoulder and ends in fringes at the lower right. The artist's intense focus on Christ's idealized yet suffering face endows this object of prayer with a haunting power.
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