The Martyrdom of St. Agatha by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1745-1750
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"The Martyrdom of St. Agatha" is one of the most touching religious works ever created by the artist. The theme of the martyrdom of the Saint, whose breast has been cut off by the executioner, had already been treated by the artist in an altarpiece in the Santo in Padua.
Here he takes it up again, but with a much more intense dramatic feeling, with a stricken expression in the emaciated face of the Saint, white as death, which will not again be found except perhaps in certain passages of the Este altarpiece.
Tiepolo painted another version of the same subject for an altarpiece still in the Basilica del Santo at Padua, commissioned on the 27th December 1734, and put in place in 1737.
The Berlin picture is stylistically more advanced as well as more dramatic in feeling and must have been painted immediately before the Wurzburg period.
A painting in the Correr Museum in Venice is believed to be the preparatory sketch, but it is not by Tiepolo himself.
Other paintings/pictures tagged "Agatha"
"Martyrdom of St Agatha" (1520) Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence |
"The Convent of St Agatha and Prinsenhof in Delft" (1667-80) Private collection |
"St Peter Healing St Agatha" (1614) Galleria Nazionale, Parma |
"St Agatha" (1630-33) Musee Fabre, Montpellier |
Popular Works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752) • Nativity (1732) • Apollo and Daphne (1744-1745) • Neptune Offering to Venice the Riches of The Sea (1745-1750) • Adoration of the Magi (1753) • The Rape of Europa (1725) • The Theological Virtues (1755) • The Last Supper (1745-1747) • The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (1722) • Education of the Virgin (1732) • An Allegory with Venus and Time (1754-1758)
Tiepolo Frescoes Wurzburg Residenz
Apollo and the Continents (1752-1753) • Apollo and the Continents (1752-1753)
Tiepolo Frescoes Patriarchal Palace In Udine
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1726-1729) • Jacob's Dream (1726-1729) • The Judgment of Solomon (1726-1729) • Hagar in the Wilderness (1726-1729)
Tiepolo Frescoes Palazzo Labia In Venice
The Banquet of Cleopatra (1745-1750) • Bellerophon on Pegasus (1746-1747)
Tiepolo Frescoes Royal Palace In Madrid
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy (1762-1766) • The Apotheosis of Spain (1764) • Venus and Vulcan (1762-1766)
Tiepolo Frescoes Villa Valmarana In Vicenza
Rinaldo Abandoning Armida (1757) • Aeneas Conducted to Immortality by Venus (1764-1766)
Tiepolo Frescoes Santa Maria Del Rosario
The Institution of the Rosary (1737-1739) • The Virgin Appearing to St Dominic (1737-1739)