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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Saint Scholastica


Andrea Mantegna 1431-1506
Detail showing Saint Scholastica in the Altarpiece of St Luke
1453–1454
Tempera on panel 97 × 37 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan


Jean II Restout (1692, - 1768)
The Death of St Scholastica
1730
Oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours

The Death of St Scholastica was commissioned for a monastery at Bourgueil, not far from Tours, and is the companion picture to an Ecstasy of St Benedict. St Benedict was her twin.

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