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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / Manuscripts / French translation of Jean de Vignay / Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fr. 244-245 (Master of Jacques de Besançon, 1480-1490) / Fr. 244
Saints / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints of the Legenda Aurea / cap. 98: De sancta Christina (July 24)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Christina / Life / Christina is scourged by twelve men
Saints / Saints A - Z / Christina / Life / Christina is bound on a wheel and roasted over a fire
Saints / Saints A - Z / Christina / Life / Christina's breasts are cut off
Saints / Saints A - Z / Christina / Life / Martyrdom (shot with arrows)

Further details

The wheel probably alludes to her torture on the wheel, the whip to the scourging.

Artist or creator

Master of Jacques de Besançon (François le Barbier, active c1480-1498)

Date

1480 (circa) - 1490

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 414

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 207v.

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