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Saint Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols
Saint Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols
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Saint Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols

by After Pietro da Cortona

Date: 1640s

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Bourgeois Bequest, 1811

  • Accession number

    DPG226

  • Artist

    After Pietro da Cortona

  • Date

    1640s

  • Dimensions

    115.3 x 87 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Saint Martina refused to worship at the Temple of Apollo, which was destroyed when she called down a bolt of lightning. DPG226 is a copy of Cortona's original in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, probably of the early to mid-1640s.

Saint Martina calling down Lightning on the Idols

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