Saint Cecilia: her death. Engraving by G.B. de Poilly after N. de Poilly after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

  • Domenichino, 1581-1641.
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An episode described by Réau, loc. cit.: having refused to sacrifice to the gods, Cecilia is condemned to die through suffocation by the steam in an overheated caldarium, but she survives. A lictor, ordered to behead her, fails to do so after three blows of the sword. She survives a further three days in one of the Thermae at Rome, before expiring in the presence of Pope Urban (Urban I?)

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Dominic. Zampier. pinx. Romae in eccles. S.ti Ludovici nation. Gallic. N. de Poilly delin. Ioan. Bapt. de Poilly sculp. Romae ...

References note

Louis Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien, Paris: P.U.F, 1957, tome III, part 1, p. 279

Reference

Wellcome Collection 8730i

Reproduction note

After a painting by Domenichino in the same direction in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, commissioned in 1612

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