St. Barbara (?) on the left, stepping down from a colonnaded porch, with a chalice and the host in her outstretched left hand and crucifix raised above her head in her right hand, chasing away a terrified figure holding a book with serpents for hair

After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Italian

after 1596

Not on view

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Title: St. Barbara (?) on the left, stepping down from a colonnaded porch, with a chalice and the host in her outstretched left hand and crucifix raised above her head in her right hand, chasing away a terrified figure holding a book with serpents for hair
Artist: After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome)
Published in: London
Date: after 1596
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 3 3/16 × 5 7/16 in. (8.1 × 13.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Object Number: 62.650.534bis
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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