Oil on canvas, 7' 11 3/8" × 17' 9 1/4" (242.2 × 541.7 cm). A massive field of cadmium red punctuated by five vertical "zips" — [[Barnett Newman|Newman]]'s signature motif. The title, Latin for "Man, Heroic and Sublime," signals his ambition to create a [[Color Field Painting|Color Field]] art of existential scale and spiritual grandeur.