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Saint Helena sits with one foot up on a stone bench in a window alcove, her head resting in her hand, her elbow on the window ledge. As she sleeps, two winged cherubs appear in the sky carrying the True Cross. The deterioration of the pigment smalt has caused the sky to turn from pale blue to yellow-grey.
Veronese’s painting has probably been cropped at the top and bottom. It was clearly designed to be seen from below, and may have been painted as decoration for an organ shutter, perhaps with a now lost opposite shutter showing Constantine.
Title
The Dream of Saint Helena
Date
about 1570
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 197.5 x W 115.6 cm
Accession number
NG1041
Acquisition method
Bought, 1878
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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