. Sacred and legendary art . bound to a column ; andall her beautiful teeth were pulled out, one by one, with apair of pincers; then a fire was kindled, and as she persistedin the faith, she was flung into it, and gave up her soul toGod, being carried into heaven by His angels. The cautious Baillet admits that the Virgin Apollonia wasput to death in a tumult of the people against the Christians,and that ils lui casserent dabord toutes les dents par descoups horribles. But the above is the legend followed bythe painters. St. Apollonia is represented with the palm as martyr, and ST. APOLLONIA 56
. Sacred and legendary art . bound to a column ; andall her beautiful teeth were pulled out, one by one, with apair of pincers; then a fire was kindled, and as she persistedin the faith, she was flung into it, and gave up her soul toGod, being carried into heaven by His angels. The cautious Baillet admits that the Virgin Apollonia wasput to death in a tumult of the people against the Christians,and that ils lui casserent dabord toutes les dents par descoups horribles. But the above is the legend followed bythe painters. St. Apollonia is represented with the palm as martyr, and ST. APOLLONIA 567 holding a pair of pincers with a tooth : or the pincers, as inlater pictures, are placed near her; in the beautiful picture ofSt. Apollonia in our National Gallery, the pincers are lying ona table ; in a picture by Memling, she wears a golden tooth,suspended as an ornament to her neck-chain. There is a by Furini in the Rinuccini Palace ^ at Florence, ahead of singular beauty, bent back, as if preparing for the. St. Apollonia (Carlo Dolci) torture; the ferocious executioner seen behind. She does not,however, appear to be popular as a patron saint, nor are pic-tures of her very common. The finest I have seen is that byFrancesco Granacci in the Munich Gallery. It is a singlefigure, nearly life size, and forms one wing of a beautiful altar-piece, which Granacci painted for the sake of a favorite niece, 1 [The collection of the Rinuccini Palace is now dispersed.] 568 THE GREEK MARTYRS who was a mm in the convent of St. Apollonia at was a favorite pupil of Michael Angelo, and caughtsome of his grandeur of form ; but in his treatment of a subjecthe rather resembles Ghirlandajo. On the predella beneath herepresented in six compartments the life of the saint. 1. , after her baptism, hears the voice of angels sendingher forth to preach the Gospel. 2. She is preaching to thepeople, — a noble figure ; her auditors are principally old men,who a
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