The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, 17th-18th century
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Gift of James A. Bergquist, Boston, in honor of Rachel McGarryexpand_more 2021.69.37
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Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred in Patras, a city on the west coast of Greece. Here we see a prliminary stage in his arrest and torture. several men bind him and prepare to beat him with a bundle of switches. A guardsman pushes back some concerned women and children. A Roman official sits on a throne, observing and approving the action. According to legend, Andrew was subsequently killed on an X-shaped cross.
Carlo Maratti's etching is based on a painting made decades earlier by Domenico Zampieri ("Domenichino"), a fresco completed about 1608 in the Oratory (chapel) of Saint Andrew in the church of San Gregorio Magno in Rome. Domenichino arranged the foreground figures like a classical frieze angainst a backdrop of classical architecture and landscape. Maratti drew what he saw onto his etching plate, and the image became reversed in the printing process.
Details
- Title
- The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew
- Artist Life
- (Rome), 1625 - 1713
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2021.69.37
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Bartsch XXI.93.11 Nagler Kunstlerlexikon 11 LeBlanc 4 Heller-Andressen 6 II/IV Bellini 10, II/V Illustrated Bartsch/Bellini .011 II/V
- Curator Approved
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