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Halo Or Helmet Art Print
by Jean Pacheco Ravinski
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Halo Or Helmet art print by Jean Pacheco Ravinski. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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'Halo Or Helmet'....After the painting, 'The Madonna di Senigallia' by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1474. It... more
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'Halo Or Helmet'....After the painting, 'The Madonna di Senigallia' by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1474. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, in the Ducal Palace of Urbino, Italy.
While examining the original, painted in 1474, the visitor on the left with the feather appeared to be sporting a space helmet! On closer examination, it turned out to be his gray frizzy hairdo! I just could not pass up this juicy anachronism. Maybe all those halos actually WERE medieval attempts at depicting visitors from off planet?....shades of Erich Anton Paul von D�niken....
About Jean Pacheco Ravinski
Hello! And thank you to all the THOUSANDS of visitors to my Fine Art America online art gallery! Growing up in Needham, Massachusetts I was influenced by the paintings and illustrations of N. C. Wyeth who lived in Needham and donated the paintings he used for books and magazines to the Needham Public Library. They have a great collection of his artwork there now. This is where I would go to immerse myself in his artwork and the artwork of all the book illustrators. Ludwig Bemelmans became another of my favorites and so I became a watercolorist and muralist at an early age. I spent my high school years taking Saturday classes at Mass College of Art in Boston and spent quite a bit of time in the art department at Needham High School...
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