This Friday Afternoon뭩 Challenge category: Martyred Women!

CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:11 PM
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This Friday Afternoon뭩 Challenge category: Martyred Women!

Martyred saints were often represented with a characteristic of their martyrdom or a 뱑epresentation� of their martyrdom. Can you identify the saints pictured here in works by historic artists?

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horseshoecrab

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:30 PM
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1. #4

St. Cecilia by Raphael

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:31 PM
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2. Yayyy! Do you know this work? I must confess I didn't until I was researching this question! nt

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horseshoecrab

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:35 PM
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4. The musical instruments...

were the biggest clue that it was Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians.

Then it was a matter of tracking down which Cecilia by which artist.

This beautiful Raphael, by the way, anticipating your question, ;-) is in Bologna I believe.

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:53 PM
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11. I wish I had seen it in Bologna....I was sick on that trip...what a nightmare that was...

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Warpy

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:34 PM
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3. Next to last is St. Cecelia

whose purported image haunted my youth, framed above my grandfather's grand piano and sitting at her harpsichord, an instrument that wouldn't be invented for many centuries after her death.

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:48 PM
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8. It's an interesting take on the hagiography of Cecilia. She purportedly

sang beautifully while she was dying horribly, so the point was that God saved her from suffering (or she rose above it). This painting seems to suggest that her music was destroyed. What do you think?

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Warpy

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:57 PM
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13. Well, there wasn't a hell of a lot of notation back

in the third century. Music was passed from person to person, each adding his or her own personal stamp on it. Destroying her music meant destroying her, which they did, and destroying every other musician who'd ever heard her, which they apparently did not.

I always thought the painting of her at a harpsichord was a little silly once I read her story.

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 05:02 PM
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15. So you interpret this as an unsuccessful attempt to silence her beautiful music,

not to say it did not happen...I get it, (duh, me).

It is a wonderful Raphael. Too bad his life was cut off so soon...who knows, he might have surpassed Michelangelo...

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:37 PM
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5. #1 = Saint Apollonia : Teeth pulled.

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:50 PM
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9. Yes! Do you know this work? nt

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WinkyDink

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Sat Oct-16-10 06:31 PM
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22. Hee! Now I do! :-)

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Staph

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:38 PM
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6. #5

is Saint Barbara, by Jan Van Eyck.

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:52 PM
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10. nice work, staph...do you know this work?

I didn't but I find it fascinating...

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Staph

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Fri Oct-15-10 05:00 PM
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14. I wish that I was that cultured....

I searched for a list of saints and their symbols, and found that Barbara is often portrayed with a peacock or ostrich feather and a tower. A search for images of Saint Barbara had a ton of images.

Sadly, the first copy of the Van Eyck Saint Barbara listed on Google Images is from a reference by the goobers on Free Republic. Apparently they are thrilled by her patronage of artillery. Freepers and their love of big guns!

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 05:04 PM
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16. oh, dear god. This is a lovely drawing...most stunning...nt

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horseshoecrab

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:45 PM
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7. #3

St Agatha.

Martyrdom of St. Agatha -- by Mariano Rossi

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 04:56 PM
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12. Yes! Now we're down to #2! nt

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horseshoecrab

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Fri Oct-15-10 05:41 PM
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17. #2

I think it must be St. Lucy (Santa Lucia).

She is looking down. But I can't tell if her eyes are cut out and on a plate. That would be St. Lucy for sure.
She does appear, however, to be being stabbed in the throat with a long knife, which is said to be St. Lucy's method of death.

Sorry that I can't figure out the artist!

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CTyankee

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Fri Oct-15-10 06:39 PM
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18. No, not St. Lucy...no eyes on a plate...

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Fri Oct-15-10 07:50 PM
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19. St. Justina of Padua?

I see in google searches her martyrdom was by knife in throat but most images that I find show knife in chest.

If not Justina, any clues?

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horseshoecrab

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Fri Oct-15-10 08:01 PM
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20. ooh ooh ooh...

The Martyrdom of St. Ursula, by Caravaggio

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CTyankee

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Sat Oct-16-10 07:48 AM
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21. Excellent! Without the actual arrows in the picture, you'd have to know the painting.

Which you did!

This particular image is one that an art historian said prefigured photography in that it captured a dazed look at the moment someone is killed...something that we began to be conscious of with the war photography of WWII. An interesting take!

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