ART: The Martyrdom of Saint Agatha

“The Martyrdom of St. Agatha” is one of the most touching religious works ever created by the artist. The theme of the martyrdom of the Saint, whose breast has been cut off by the executioner, had already been treated by the artist in an altarpiece in the Santo in Padua.

Here he takes it up again, but with a much more intense dramatic feeling, with a stricken expression in the emaciated face of the Saint, white as death, which will not again be found except perhaps in certain passages of the Este altarpiece.

1745-1750

By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

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