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Saint Dorothea 1730

The legendary early Christian martyr Saint Dorothea was the daughter of a Roman senator and was executed because of her faith during the reign of Emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century. On the way to her decapitation, the pagan lawyer Theophilus mockingly asked her to send him fruits from Paradise. Before her death, an angel appeared to her with a basket of flowers an...

Size:: H: 25 5/8 x W: 19 5/8 in. (65.1 x 49.8 cm)
Medium:: oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum
More:: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/26245/saint-dorothea/

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