Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Águeda (Saint Agatha) c.1635–1640 Oil on canvas, 129 × 61 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier The prefect Quintianus wants to marry the beautiful and noble Sicilian Agathe; having dedicated her life to Christ, she refuses. So he makes…
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San Gregorio (1473)
San Benedetto (1473)
Madonna col Bambino tra i santi Caterina e Tommaso (1527-1533)
San Sebastiano curato da Sant’Irene (1628)
Madonna di Manchester (c.1494)
Autoritratto come Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (c.1615-1617)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Autoritratto come Santa Caterina d’Alessandria (Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria) c.1615–1617 Oil on canvas, 71.4 × 69 cm National Gallery, London Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated female artist of the seventeenth century, appears in the guise…