https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/files/original/dd0886c7c77f781b5f98e5ee8504d398.jpg 9bcf94f9dfe29995e4865391616cbf49 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saint Agatha Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Saint Agatha Description An account of the resource oil and tempera on canvas Painted surface H: 25 1/4 x W: 19 13/16 in. (64.2 x 50.3 cm) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Francesco Furini Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Walters Art Museum https://art.thewalters.org/detail/34385/st-agatha/ Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1635-45 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource This devotional image shows the saint contemplating God while tenderly holding the pincers, the instruments of her sufferings through which she achieved her sanctity. The palm branch is the attribute of martyrs. The way in which the saint is modeled with soft sfumato (an almost invisible rendering of the transitions from light to shade) and emerges from a dark background is characteristic of Furini's work. For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 307, p. 435. Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1881 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 59; 1897 catalogue: no. 119]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest. breasts cover female nude pincers saint agatha