Martyrdom of a Saint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Martyrdom of a Saint

Hermann Samuel Ratzerdorfer

Date
after 1866
Medium
silver
Culture
Northern Italy, early 16th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Recent research has revealed that this plaquette—long characterized as an Italian object from the 1500s—is indeed by the hand of a 19th-century silversmith working in Vienna. The subject of the Renaissance-style object also cannot be precisely identified, although it was long associated with the beheading of Saint Paul.

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