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oil painting

oil on canvas
Location: Chiesa dei Santi del Crocifisso, Borgo

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…

The Martyrdom of St Agatha; standing on a raised platform with two men torturing her by the shearing of her breasts, a woman and child crouched in the foreground, God the Father surrounded by putti above
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over…

The saint tied to a tree at centre, two men shearing her breasts with large tongs, hills and a city in background; copy in reverse after Cornelis Cort who engraved after Giulio Clovio
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Signed in…

the saint tied to a column at centre; flanked by two henchmen holding shears; another crouching at right, fanning a fire
Height: Height: 260 millimetres
Width: Width: 184 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Signed at…

Height: Height: 446 millimetres
Width: Width: 247 millimetres
Inscription type: inscription
Inscription content: Lettered in margin below: 'Iohannes Bapta Tiepolo inv et pinx. Io. Dominicus filius del. et fecit'

The Martyrdom of St Agatha; centre, St Agatha tied to a column with her breasts exposed, to the left and r, an excutioner approaches with a pair of shears; in the foreground, another man kindles a fire, a crown and veil lie on the…

The martyrdom of St Agatha, who is having her breast cut off by a man at the right, after Ippolito Costa. 1577
Engraving
Height: Height: 248 millimetres
Width: Width: 182
Inscription content: Lettered bottom right 'Diana incidebat Romae 1577' and…

pen and ink wash drawing
Height 277 mm
Width 207 mm
watermark: Lamb in circle (45 x 47 mm, on P3 of 6P, vH, left), similar to Briquet 49 (with halo)(Florence 1511, Treviso 1514), similar to Piccard Online 86768 (Ferrara 1576)