1604
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is a 1604 unspecified by Guido Reni, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a scene of Saint Andrew being led to his martyrdom. He's tied to a cross, and people are around him. The artist of this work was inspired by another artist's fresco, which is interesting because it shows how ideas were shared back then. To learn more about this style of painting, look up the technique of sfumato.
This small devotional picture by an anonymous 17th-century Venetian artist drew his composition from Guido Reni's large St. Andrew Led to Martyrdom fresco in Rome's Church of San Gregorio al Celio. The CMA painting portrays the central image of Reni's 1608 fresco by Reni. St. Andrew and his brother Peter were apostles of Christ and left all of their possessions to follow him. Andrew was martyred in Achaea. He requested to be crucified on the X-shaped cross because Andrew considered himself unworthy of dying on the same cross as Christ. Reni depicted an X-shaped cross in the fresco, while in…
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Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne.
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