The Two Flames
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut in black on silk mounted on silk brocade
Dimensions
sheet: 26.4 x 15.6 cm (10 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.) image: 19.7 x 12.4 cm (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.85
About the Artist
Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente was born on March 23, 1952, in Naples, Italy, into an aristocratic family as the only son of Judge Marchese Lorenzo Clemente di San Luca and his wife, Bianca Quarto. Drawn to art from childhood through dreamlike drawings inspired by recollections, he moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture at Sapienza University but soon abandoned it for visual arts. There, he met the concep...