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Painting of a bearded man in a black robe and white surplice, hands clasped in prayer, with a faint halo and books behind him.

Saint Dionysius the Areopagite in Prayer

A bearded man in a black hooded robe and white surplice clasps his hands in prayer before a shelf of red-bound books, with a faint halo around his head. A scroll and a small inscribed label hang at the sides of this half-length panel painting, set within an arched frame.

Artist
anoniem
Date
1505-1510
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2860 × 3980 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1510.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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