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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Saint Alto is a 1500 ink by German 15th Century, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a saint in a landscape. The saint wears a brown robe, a blue-green scarf, and a blue-green hat with a cross on it. He holds a staff in his right hand and a book in his left. The saint stands in front of a tree and a building. There are birds in the sky. The painting is colored in shades of brown, blue-green, orange, red, and yellow-green. The painting is a woodcut, a technique used during the Renaissance period. If you want to learn more about this style, look up the Renaissance.
This 15th-century German artist carved vivid religious scenes into metal and wood, then hand-painted them in bright, symbolic colors.
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