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Title
The Holy Family
Description
Composition in blue tones, white, red, earthy, green, ochre, black, rose and yellow. Resulting rough texture own support and smooth. It depicts the Holy Family, standing in front and Holy Spirit represented by a dove, against plain light blue background. On the left, Our Lady turned slightly to the right; she has almond shaped dark hair facing right, long nose, full lips closed painted red. wear long white dress with blue blanket on the outside and red inside handling with folded hands; It has white mantle over the head with part involving his on the right neck to the left. It has bare feet away, and the on the left is stepping on the hem of her dress and the on the right in the mantle. In the center, the Child Jesus; has a round face, long brown hair, broad forehead, almond-shaped eyes facing forward, small nose, closed lips, rounded chin. It wears light green tunic with darker green bar, tied by red belt with fallen tip at the front and sandals. It has the on the right arm along the body to ajar and on the left hand up, folded, if palm hand seeing out, having minimum and ring fingers closed and the other straight up. On the right, St. Joseph, with the face in profile to the left, looking in the direction of the Child Jesus. He has black hair, broad forehead, straight nose and lips almost completely hidden by a full beard. wear white robe finished off in the neck by yellow stripe and bar for black belt, brick-red robe covering her on the left shoulder and the lower part of your body. It folded arm at on the right chest and on the left slightly flexed with the hand near the waist and is barefoot. Above the head of the Child Jesus, between the faces of Our Lady and St. Joseph, Holy Spirit represented by white dove, facing, with open wings.
Author
Candido PortinariPerson
General Info
The members of the family that modeled for this work were close friends of the artist
Themes
Related Event
Related Document49
Artwork Function
Executed toArtworkFunctionType
Artwork Function Description
Work executed to decorate the center third of the right 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 00049.
Collection
Height
180
Width
163
Annotation
Unsigned and undated
