Click for enlargement Click for enlargement of torture scene Lorenzo Lotto, Stories of St. Barbara


1524
Oratorio Suardi, Trescore: The picture shows a partial view of the left wall of the Oratory.

Scenes from the torture and martyrdom of St. Barbara, as narrated in Caxton: html or pdf.

In the five roundels formed by vines from Jesus' hand are (left to right) St. John the Baptist, Saints Peter and Paul, St. Stephen, St. Benedict, and a bishop saint with a book and a spear.

More of St. Barbara