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Material
panel
Measurements
120 x 45 cm.
Description
Full view
Formerly in the Castello di Vincigliata, Florence and then Baron Alberto Fassini collection, Rome (after 1930).
Probably part of the same polyptych as Saint Nicholas of Bari and…

woodcut

Styling is reminiscent of an illustration of St Eufrasia in Giunta, La rapresentatione di santa Eufrasia composta per messer Castellano Castellani, 1558; illustrations for a play rather than for a meditational work.

"Martyred under Emperor Decius (ruled 249–51 A.D.), Saint Reparata was a patron saint of Florence, for whom its cathedral was named. This exquisitely painted panel is from the high altarpiece of the cathedral (the main panels are now in the Uffizi ,…

"Together with two other female saints, these panels were originally stacked in two groups of three, one above the other, to form the piers flanking the main panels of an altarpiece. By this date Giovanni di Paolo’s work must have begun to seem out…

Four oval scenes, each related to religious events or saints celebrated in February; from left to right and top to bottom, a soldier shearing the breast of a young female saint tied to a pillar (St Agatha's Day); a man armed with a brand and burning…

Plate 20: St Agatha and an angel; after Guercino. St Agatha, standing on the left, clutches her mutilated breasts while on the right an angel approaches her with an ointment jar. 1706
Etching and engraving
Height: Height: 358 millimetres
Width:…

Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier; bronze; circular.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing…

St Agatha, standing full-length, heads turned in profile to left, holding a pair of shears with her breast
Engraving
Height: Height: 70 millimetres
Width: Width: 47 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered with a…

St Agatha standing between two trees, her left arm raised and tied to a third tree in the middle; copy in reverse after Marcantonio
Engraving
Height: Height: 87 millimetres
Width: Width: 55 millimetres
Inscription content: Handwritten inscription…

St Agatha; kneeling to left in front of a prison, with one severed breast, praying to a vision of St Peter standing blessing her; behind to left she is roasted alive on hot coals; within an oval frame and with a vertical panel of ornamental…