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| Keywords: Francesco Furini - St Agatha - Walters 371839.jpg The early Christian martyr St Agatha was pursued by the consular official of Sicily She refused him and the tortures to which he submitted her included cutting off her breasts They were restored though the divine intervention of St Peter 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 Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 307 435 ca 1635 1645 oil tempera canvas Painted surface cm 64 2 50 3 accession number 37 1839 34385 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome prior to 1881 mode of acquisition unknown 1881 catalogue no 59 1897 catalogue no 119 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Saints and Their Symbols The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1985-1986 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Francesco Furini Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian paintings in the Walters Art Museum 17th-century paintings of Saint Agatha of Sicily 1630s oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1640s oil on canvas paintings in the United States 1640s paintings in Italy 1630s paintings in Italy 17th-century oil paintings of women at half length Female toplessness in paintings Paintings of Christian saints holding an attribute shears Paintings of Christian saints holding the martyr's palm Tempera on canvas | ||||
