Christ Led Captive from a Palace

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1740/1745

This is a drawing of an architectural interior with arches and columns. The scene includes figures engaged in various actions with intricate architectural details such as large arches and tall columns adorned with… · description from the collection

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Artist: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena ¹
Date: 1740/1745 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash (for architecture), pen and black ink (foreground), pen and gray ink (background), both with brown wash (for the figures) ¹
Original: 3,567 × 5,272 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

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