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Notice how the well divides the picture between Jesus and the woman with her metal vessel, then find the people balancing jars on their heads in the distance.
Jesus talks with a Samaritan woman at a well, one of the moments, in the Art Institute of Chicago’s account, when his divine nature was made known. Perugino puts the eight-sided stone well, its bucket hanging from a pulley, in the middle of the picture, and scatters small figures carrying water jars across the meadow behind.
Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas · 27.3 × 46.3 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Renaissance · High Renaissance and Mannerism
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- Museum title
- Christ and the Woman of Samaria
- Artist
- Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci; Italian, 1445/46-1523)
- Date
- 1500–05
- Medium
- Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
- Dimensions
- 27.3 × 46.3 cm (10 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Renaissance c. 1300–1600
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.