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Middle ages portrait
Chighina Margharita- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80 × 90 cm
- Year
- 2016
A red-haired woman in a red medieval gown with checkered diamond sleeves clasps her hands around a small iron key on a cord.
- Style
- Decorative
- Mood
- Mysterious
- Themes
- Portrait · Women · History · Fantasy
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- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
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About this work
A young woman with long auburn hair faces forward against a plain, warm ochre backdrop, wearing a deep red medieval-style gown with a pleated white ruff collar and wide sleeves patterned in black-and-white checkered diamonds edged with painted flowers. Her hands are folded at her waist, holding a small dark iron key on a knotted cord.
The palette is dominated by saturated crimson and gold-ochre, with the checkered pattern providing sharp graphic contrast against the softly modeled face. The heavily textured, scumbled background contrasts with the flatter, decorative rendering of the costume, giving the portrait a stylized, storybook air of quiet mystery centered on the key she holds.
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