File:Alessandro Turchi - Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison - Walters 37552.jpg

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Alessandro Turchi: Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison

Artist



Description	Italian painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	1578	22 January 1649
Location of birth/death	Verona	Rome
Work period	Baroque era QS:P2348,Q37853
Work location	Verona; Rome
Authority file	: Q507279 VIAF: 30398477 ISNI: 0000000081101698 ULAN: 500003962 LCCN: nr92024174 WGA: t/turchi WorldCat

Title

Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

English: 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. The gray stone of the prison wall was created by letting the slate show through, and it forms a background for the night scene, illuminated by a torch. As opposed to canvas and wood, slate gave a painting almost unlimited durability and the same kind of permanence as sculpture.

Depicted people

Agatha of Sicily
Peter

Date

between circa 1640 and circa 1645 (Baroque)

Medium

oil on slate

Dimensions

Painted surface H: 13 11/16 x W: 19 1/2 x Approx. D: 5/16 in. (34.7 x 49.5 x 0.8 cm)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

	Native name	Walters Art Museum
	Location	Baltimore, United States of America
	Coordinates	39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W
	Established	1934
	Website	thewalters.org
	Authority file	: Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat

Accession number

37.552

Place of creation

Rome, Italy (?)

Object history

Hood Blackwood, England, mid 18th century [mode of acquisition unknown]
Ann Blackwood Madox (Mrs. E. Madox), England, late 18th century, by gift
Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

Exhibition history

Going for Baroque. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995-1996. Alessandro Turchi : detto l'Orbetto 1578-1649. Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona. 1999.

Credit line

Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909

Inscriptions

[Transcription] On wooden backing which holds the picture int he frame: This picture is the property of Anne Hood Blackwood given by her father, Hood Blackwood, April ye 18th, 178-, now Mrs. E. Madox 1791; [Inscriptions] On wooden backing are severl labels which tell the legend of St. Agatha

References

Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 315 , pp. 443−444 OCLC: 2463997.

Source

Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork

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