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Martyrdom of Four Saints Artist Correggio Year c. 1524 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 160 cm × 185 cm (63 in × 73 in) Location Galleria Nazionale, Parma The Martyrdom of Four Saints is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio, dating from around 1524 and housed in the Galleria Nazionale of Parma, Italy.
History
The work is one of the canvasses commissioned by Parmesan noble Placido Del Bono for a chapel in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma. They are mentioned (although wrongly assigned to the city's cathedral by late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari in the first edition of his Lives (1550).
The subject of the painting, rather rare in western religious art, is the martyrdom of Placidus and his sister Flavia (who had allegedly lived in the 4th century) and, behind them, that of two earlier Roman siblings, Eutychius and Victorinus, who appears as having been already beheaded. An angel flyies above them and holds the martyrdom's palm.
Sources
- Adani, Giuseppe (2007). Correggio pittore universale. Correggio: Silvana Editoriale.
External links
- Page at Correggio Art Home website (Italian)
Categories:- Correggio paintings
- 1520s paintings
- Collections of the Galleria Nazionale di Parma
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