Nude

Pierre Daura (Pedro Francisco Daura y Garcia)

1920-1927

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Palamedesz was a painter. He is shown here slightly turned to the proper right with curly hair and a small moustache. He is dressed with a frilled collar and long cloak. He leans with his proper left arm onto a slab of stone. This image is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
John the Baptist pours water from a bowl onto Christ who stands in a stream. A Dominican nun kneels in the foreground below John and two angels look on in the background.
A woman stands cradling a baby in her arms. She stands facing slightly right as the baby faces her chest.
On the recto, a central figure stands underneath an arch and between two columns. Figures appear to surround him. On the verso, two figures descend a staircase in an ornately decorated room.