Virgin to the Nile, 1865 (oil on canvas)

Virgin to the Nile (La vergine al Nilo), by Federico Faruffini, 1865, 19th Century, oil on canvas, 123 x 243 cm Whole artwork view. Close-up of the corpse of a young woman which floats, dragged by the water of the Nile; her dead body rests on a wooden table painted with a blue colour, decorated with golden hieroglyphics; she has naked breast, and stretched arms; all around her, multicoloured flowers; on the river bank can be seen a large group of people; on the left, a sorrowful woman and a lot of people, men and women; on the right, some people are kneeling with their hands and arms stretched out as a sign of adoration; on the background, a sacred edifice National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art-GNAM