Men and women line up to either side of a man seated on a throne in this long, horizontal painting.

An Episode from the Life of Publius Cornelius Scipio

Giovanni Bellini (Italian, 1430–1516)

Date: after 1506
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 29½ × 140¼ in (74.8 × 356.2 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1952.2.7. See the museum’s record
Credit: Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Hang it

Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.

Where Print size

Print: 12½ × 60 in, the whole painting on 20 × 60 in paper
Center: 49½ in (126 cm) from the floor
Above the sofa: 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
Ideal width: 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.

12½ × 60 in panoramic print (32 × 152 cm), centered 49½ in from the floor, 8 in above the sofa. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Print it

No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.

Paper	Filling the paper	Printed whole	Frame	Frame with a 2 in mat	Frame with a 3 in mat	Sharpness
5 × 7 in	trims 70.6 %	1½ × 7 in	5 × 7 in ready-made	9 × 11 in custom	11 × 13 in custom	7638 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 16 in	trims 72 %	3½ × 16 in	12 × 16 in ready-made	16 × 20 in ready-made	18 × 22 in custom	3370 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 36 in	trims 37 %	7½ × 36 in	12 × 36 in custom	16 × 40 in custom	18 × 42 in custom	1507 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 30 in	trims 68.5 %	6¼ × 30 in	20 × 30 in ready-made	24 × 34 in custom	26 × 36 in custom	1818 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 36 in	trims 68.5 %	7½ × 36 in	24 × 36 in ready-made	28 × 40 in custom	30 × 42 in custom	1507 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 60 in	trims 37 %	12½ × 60 in	20 × 60 in custom	24 × 64 in custom	26 × 66 in custom	909 dpi, crisp up close

Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.

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Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).

Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 117 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 176 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 418 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 54,885 × 11,458 px from National Gallery of Art
The museum’s record of this painting National Gallery of Art

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.