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Polycrates' Crucifixion
Salvator Rosa, 1664
1.70 m
99 cm × 73 cm
About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 73 cm
- Width
- 99 cm
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Kind
- Painting
- Made in
- Italy
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- 73.4 × 98.9 cm (28 7/8 × 38 15/16 in.)
- Credit
- Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 99 cm × 73 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1664. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund.
- How was it made?
- Oil on canvas, made in Italy, 17th Century.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Art Institute of Chicago
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
