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The Holy Family

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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.

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  • Title: The Holy Family
  • Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
  • Creator Nationality: Brazilian
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Date: 1941
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w163 x h180cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: religious:Holy Spirit, religious:The Holy Family, human figure:child:boy, human figure:group, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: tempera
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2762
  • Function: Work executed to decorate the center third of the right side wall of the “Nonna” chapel in Brodowski, SP. The house where the artist’s parents lived, along with the work, was expropriated by the São Paulo state government in 1969 and transformed into a museum in 1970.. The members of the family that modeled for this work were close friends of the artist
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1343
Projeto Portinari

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