Title

Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison, c1640-1645. Creator: Alessandro Turchi.

Caption

Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison, c1640-1645. According to an early Christian legend, when a 3rd-century Roman official of Sicily desired the Christian woman Agatha, and she refused to yield to his advances, he had her tortured, and even ordered her breasts cut off. At night in prison, she was visited by a vision of Saint Peter and an angel, and her breasts were miraculously restored.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B21_279

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49,4Mb (835,1Kb) / 16,5in x 11,6in / 4960 x 3484 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe portrait Italy Italian women woman people boy boys child children man men health religious sitting arts painting vision night country religion law art guy crime museum color Sicily Christian Christianity saint Santa Baroque prison location century reassuring prisoner reassurance concept abuse TORTURE santo apparition seated time of day three people 17th century Sicilian restoring penitentiary oil Painting Colour persecution martyr seventeenth century martyrdom TGN Simon Peter St Agatha St Peter torchlight tortured portrait young women young woman St Peter Saint Peter Simon Saint Agatha Saint Agatha Baroque Era Peter the Apostle Simon Cephas Alessandro Turchi Turchi Alessandro Walters Art Museum Oil on slate L'Orbetto 1640s Sicily Oil on slate Heritage Art Agatha of Sicily Agatha of Orbetto L' Saint Agathe