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Diana and Apollo Slaughtering the Children of Niobe

Pirro Ligorio, c. 1550

6.75 m × 36 cm

Longer than a car. Stood on end it is 4.0 people tall.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 36 cm
Width: 6.75 m
Medium: red chalk, squared with black chalk and indented for transfer, on two joined sheets of laid paper
Kind: Drawing
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 6.75 m × 36 cm. Longer than a car. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made c. 1550. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz.
How was it made?: Red chalk, squared with black chalk and indented for transfer, on two joined sheets of laid paper.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

The gallery's walk hangs a selection. This work can hang in a room of its own, with five works that hang well beside it, at their real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.