Lucas Granach the Elder. German, 1472-1553. The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. According
Lucas Granach the Elder. German, 1472-1553. The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. According to legend, Saint Barbara was executed by her heathen father, Dioscorus, when she refused to recant her Christian faith. Luxuriously dressed, she seems here to calmly accept her fate as she kneels before Dioscorus, who raises his sword to behead her. The four sinister-looking witnesses may be the Roman authorities who had tortured her in an attempt to persuade her to sacrifice to pagan gods, and who later sentenced her to death. The coat of arms indicates that Cranach painted this panel for a member of the Rem family, who were wealthy merchants in Augsburg.
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