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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…

Overall (confirmed): 5 3/8 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (13.7 × 8.9 × 7.9 cm)

"This small, half-length statuette depicts the early Christian saint Agatha gazing heavenward with her hands bound behind her back. According to legend, the Sicilian…

hot-pokers are used to torture saint agatha

Saint Agatha holds a pair of pincers, the martyr's palm, and the Bible. In the background, a burning pyre. Saint Agatha suffered martyrdom by having her breasts torn off with pincers
color lithograph
Sant'Agata. Vergine e martire. On verso, prayer…

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…

"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…

23,2 x 16 cm

Messing penning. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild, geflankeerd door twee leeuwen boven cartouche met opschrift. Keerzijde: klos, haspel, weversspoel en platte schaar onder kroon binnen omschrift

Materialbrass (alloy)
Techniquecasting /…

On this page of the Litany, a series of invocations to favored saints, the first saint appealed to is Saint Agatha: S[an]c[t]a Agatha ora pro nobis (Saint Agatha, pray for us). The pattern is followed for the prayers to Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, and…

oil painting