Sex and spirituality in 1500s Rome: Sebastiano del Piombo's martyrdom of Saint Agatha.(essay)(Critical essay)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Burke, Jill | Copyright information

Sebastiano del Piombo's Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (Fig. 1) is an unsettling image. A woman, naked apart from a cloth loosely knotted at her hips, stands in the center of the composition. Swarthy men at either side of her brandish pincers that clasp her nipples. She looks not at her tormentors but at a bearded man leaning on an elbow that juts toward the picture plane. At the other side of the painting a knife rests on a stone ledge, its blade pointing toward the beholder.

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