From far below, we look up at an older man with standing on a cliff edge or rocky ledge with his arms raised as he turns his head to gaze up to a second man and winged, child-like angels surrounded by clouds in the sky above in this square…

Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos

Workshop of Titian (Italian, 1490–1576)

Date: c. 1553/1555
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 93½ × 103½ in (237.6 × 263 cm)
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1957.14.6. 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: 21¾ × 24 in, the whole painting on 24 × 24 in paper
Center: 66 in (168 cm) from the floor
Above the mantel: 6 in (15 cm) from the mantel to the frame
Ideal width: 44 to 50 in over a 66 in mantel
Why this height: Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 4 to 8 in above the mantel, so the 6 in gap sets the height.

21¾ × 24 in landscape print (55 × 61 cm), centered 66 in from the floor, 6 in above the mantel. 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
8 × 10 in	trims 11.4 %	8 × 9 in	8 × 10 in ready-made	12 × 14 in custom	14 × 16 in custom	2087 dpi, crisp up close
12 × 12 in	trims 9.7 %	10¾ × 12 in	12 × 12 in ready-made	16 × 16 in ready-made	18 × 18 in custom	1548 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 16 in	trims 9.7 %	14½ × 16 in	16 × 16 in ready-made	20 × 20 in ready-made	22 × 22 in custom	1161 dpi, crisp up close
16 × 20 in	trims 11.4 %	16 × 17¾ in	16 × 20 in ready-made	20 × 24 in ready-made	22 × 26 in custom	1049 dpi, crisp up close
20 × 20 in	trims 9.7 %	18 × 20 in	20 × 20 in ready-made	24 × 24 in ready-made	26 × 26 in custom	928 dpi, crisp up close
24 × 24 in	trims 9.7 %	21¾ × 24 in	24 × 24 in ready-made	28 × 28 in custom	30 × 30 in custom	774 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 × 509 px from Room Paintings
Web image 843 × 766 px from National Gallery of Art
Print file 2,000 × 1,817 px from National Gallery of Art
Original file 18,578 × 16,880 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.