Scuola di Matteo Rosselli

oil on canvas, framed, some defects

cm 73x57

The following technical sheet of the work was created by Professor Sandro Bellesi as part of the inventory of the paintings of the Fattoria Franceschini. The painting is part of a group of three works that illustrate, within neutral spaces, the depictions of saints highly venerated in popular worship, described, as customary in artistic representations, with their traditional iconographic symbols: Saint Lucia with a metal plate containing two human eyes, Sant'Apollonia with a pincer with a tooth and Sant'Agata with two bleeding wounds above the breasts. The fact that they are holy martyrs is indicated by the presence of the tips of palm branches, hagiographic symbols of martyrdom. Similar in terms of style but assignable to different authors, the three works, created within the school of the Florentine painter Matteo Rosselli, show different qualitative characteristics, which reach the highest level in the definition of the figure of Sant'Agata, clearly evident in the care reserved for the drafting of the brushstrokes and in the hedonistic research of the treatment of the martyr's face.