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Title
Meeting of Our Lady and Saint Isabel
Description
Composition in rose tones (predominant), blue, ochre, red, violet, earthy, black and white. Resulting rough texture own support and smooth. It depicts meeting of Our Lady and St. Elizabeth, against rose background. The two figures are standing face to face. To the left of the composition, Our Lady profile to the right. It has long face, light hair of medium length, wavy pulled back and released. The back of the head you see a halo, long forehead, brown eyes, long nose, and thin lips closed and slightly prominent chin. wear blue long dress with sailor collar and type of the breast in wine tone finish of white flowers and black sandals passing between the fingers. Is slightly bent with white and extended forward with open hands with palms up as if to greet Santa Isabel who is the front profile to the left, turned slightly forward. It has long face, long black hair in the tail at the nape, wide forehead, arched eyebrows, eyes closed, long nose, thin and closed lips and prominent chin. wear blue dress a little shorter than that of Our Lady, seeing the ankle; It has collar, cuffs and short red bar and black sandals passing between the fingers. It is also slightly bent and arms extended forward, hands open and palms up, toward Our Lady. Background and floor smooth deep rose tone.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
The models for this work were Olga Portinari Leão, as Our Lady and Maria Portinari, as Saint Isabel, both sister and wife of the artist, respectively.
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Artwork Function
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Artwork Function Description
Work executed to decorate the center third of the left side wall of the Nonna chapel in Brodowski, SP. The house where the artists parents lived, along with the work, was expropriated by the São Paulo state government in 1969 and transformed into a museum in 1970.
Art Form
Mural paintingArtFormType
Art Medium
temperaArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
combined medium and supportArtworkSurfaceType
Preservation Number
Obra tombada sob o nº 00043 e o nº 00044.
Collection
Height
180
Width
160.5
Annotation
Unsigned and undated