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The Wounded Angel

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The Wounded Angel is a painting by the Finnish symbolist artist Hugo Simberg, depicting a wounded, blindfolded angel carried on a stretcher by two boys through a bleak landscape. It is one of Simberg's best known works and was voted Finland's national painting in a 2006 poll by the Ateneum art museum, and ranked the second most important painting in Finnish art in a separate 2013 poll by Suomen Moneta. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1903 1
Medium
Oil 1
Location
Ateneum, Helsinki 1
Height (metres)
1.27 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Sources
1. The Wounded Angel (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, year
    1903
  • Infobox, type
    Oil
  • Infobox, museum
    Ateneum, Helsinki
  • Infobox, height_metric
    127
  • Genre reference
    The Wounded Angel is a painting by the Finnish symbolist artist Hugo Simberg, depicting a wounded, blindfolded angel carried on a stretcher by two boys through a bleak landscape.
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