Saint Jean-Baptiste (Saint John the Baptist)
Greetings Card
1999 (made)
1999 (made)
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This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a "classic" Renaissance face painted by Leonardo da Vinci is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition.
Object details
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| Title | Saint Jean-Baptiste (Saint John the Baptist) (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph printed on card |
| Brief description | Greetings card reproducing a detail from a Leonardo da Vinci painting. |
| Physical description | Cropped detail of a female face (taken from Leonardo da Vinci's 1513-1516 oil painting on wood "Saint John the Baptist", now in the Louvre Museum in Paris). |
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| Credit line | Given by Tim Travis in memory of Michael Travis |
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| Summary | This greeting by the French firm Nouvelles Images demonstrates that the card is a useful medium for reproducing all manner of images. Here, a "classic" Renaissance face painted by Leonardo da Vinci is reinterpreted by cropping the picture, creating a contemporary 'close-up' composition. |
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| Accession number | E.917-2000 |
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| Record created | May 12, 2004 |
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