Het martelaarschap van de zeven broers, de zonen van de heilige Felicitas Het martelaarschap van de zeven broers, de zonen van de Heilige Felicitas, SK-A-4995 the painting depicts the Seven Brothers Martyrdom of the sons of St. Felicitas. St. Felicitas is right of center appears kneeling, while her youngest son Martial comfort and pointing to the angel who comes from above fly with seven crowns and seven palms of martyrdom. The statue of Mars, right behind her, the pagan gods which represents the early Christian widow refused to worship. To the left of the statue sits Roman Emperor Antoninus
Het martelaarschap van de zeven broers, de zonen van de heilige Felicitas Het martelaarschap van de zeven broers, de zonen van de Heilige Felicitas, SK-A-4995 the painting depicts the Seven Brothers Martyrdom of the sons of St. Felicitas. St. Felicitas is right of center appears kneeling, while her youngest son Martial comfort and pointing to the angel who comes from above fly with seven crowns and seven palms of martyrdom. The statue of Mars, right behind her, the pagan gods which represents the early Christian widow refused to worship. To the left of the statue sits Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius on a throne, which was welded to Felicitas witness of the death of her seven sons, before being executed themselves. Right in the foreground, the Saint Januarius (beaten with lead balls); in the middle and on the left in the foreground, the Saint Alexander and the decapitated Vitalis; in the middle, sitting and kneeling, Holy Phillippus and Felix; in the background is thrown from the tower Holy Silvanus. In the background a hedge of spectators and an image of one of the Vestal Virgins in a niche. To the left of the base of the statue Mars a self-portrait by Trevisani, facing the painting. At the left in the foreground a second self-portrait by Trevisani in a nutshell. At the base of the arms of Colbert and Arnauld de Pomponne under the crown of a marquis. The arms and crown referring to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy, and his wife, Catherine-Félicité Arnauld de Pomponne, to whom: the painting by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni was given 1709. Manufacturer : painter Francesco Trevisani Date: 1709 Physical features: oil on canvas material: cloth oil Technique: painter dimensions: carrier: h 75 cm. (Paint surface cm.) B × cm. (Paint surface cm.) Subject: the seven sons of St. Felicity are Beheaded; Felicity May be shown comforting them, or she is Beheaded ook portrait, self-portrait of painter
Size: 1442px × 1733px
Photo credit: © Art World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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