Revelations of the flesh and testimonies of desire : Sebatino del Piobo’s "Martyrdom of Saint Agatha"
In 1520 Sebastiano del Piombo completed the painting the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha for his patron Cardinal Ercole Rangone. Scholarly discussions of this image indicate that struggles to describe it are caught up in an imposed artificial division between the erotic and the sacred. However, as my a...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3966 |