Pietro Berrettini
(called Pietro da Cortona)
(Italian, 1596-1669).


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St. Martina (c.1635-1640).
Oil on canvas.
LACMA.

Cortona has portrayed St. Martina as the embodiment of health and beauty even though she is said to have suffered numerous tortures, including being hung on a hook, before she was ultimately beheaded.

She is shown holding the hook as well as a palm frond, a traditional symbol of saintly martyrdom; her right arm rests on a fallen structure, a reference to the Roman idols she refused to worship.

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