Neapolitanischer Meister der zweiten Hälfte des... Lot n° 325

THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT LAURENTIUS Oil on canvas. Doubled. Diameter: 104 cm. In an à jour gilded frame decorated with vine leaves and fruit. The Roman deacon at the time of Pope Sixtus II was flogged by the Roman Emperor Valerian and ordered to hand over the church treasury within three days. However, he distributed the church treasury to the members of the congregation and presented the crippled, sick and blind, lepers and widows to the emperor as the church's treasure. As a result, Laurentius was executed on a red-hot iron grid, indicated here at the bottom right of the picture. Laurentius, who receives his illumination from a light source that can be glimpsed at the top left, outside the picture field, stands in the center of the painting, surrounded by his tormentors. A putto above the scene, bringing a crown, next to it two cherubs. Minimally dam. (14007620) (13) Neapolitan School, second half of the 17th century THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT LAWRENCE Oil on canvas. Relined. Diameter: 104 cm.