Minneapolis Institute of Art
Beheading of Saint Barbara
Anonymous Master M. Z.
- Date
- c. 1501
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
According to legend, the nobleman Dioscurus was so afraid that a suitor would captivate his beloved daughter Barbara that he shut her away in a tower. She managed to convert to Christianity by corresponding with a teacher in Alexandria, which infuriated her father, who was a heathen. As punishment he cut off her head, a fate that Master MZ shows her enduring with a martyr's grace. This print demonstrates the peculiarities that scholars invariably associate with his work, including oddities of scale and stiff, awkward poses. Germany, Europe
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