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De heilige Agatha is aan een boom vastgebonden. Twee mannen snijden met grote scharen haar borsten af. Agatha kijkt naar een engel in de hemel die haar een palmtak komt brengen, het teken van het…

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132 x 178 cm

"This is one of the most important examples of Venetian painting from the 16th century, signed and dated Sebastianus Venetus faciebat Rome 1520 on the parapet in the foreground, where the henchmen’s knife has been placed. In a…

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"From a large number of initials cut from choir-books, attributed to the miniaturist active in Lombardy in the decades around and after 1500, some are signed B. F. (or B.). The identification of the artist is controversial. Wescher would like to…

Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (34.3 x 22.3 cm)

hot-pokers are used to torture saint agatha

"This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha…

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and black chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper (?), partial framing line in brown ink, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper with gold leaf remnants from a previous mount; verso: red chalk and…