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A Man Being Hit on the Head by a Falling...
A Man Being Hit on the Head by a Falling Flowerpot in Rome, Via del Nazzareno
by unknown artist
Date painted: c.1890
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40.2 cm
Collection: Wellcome Library
This painting has a ‘votive’ function: it was painted to fulfil a vow. It shows a man walking past a delicatessen in Rome and being hit on the head by a falling flowerpot.
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