Lorenzo Lotto's "Virgin and Child with St Onophrius and St Ignatius of Antioch"

• Autores: David Ekserdjian
• Localización: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, ISSN 0075-4390, Nº 60, 1997, págs. 251-253
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer identifies the bishop saint in Lorenzo Lotto's painting Virgin and Child with Two Saints in the Borghese Gallery in Rome as St. Ignatius of Antioch. This figure has never been satisfactorily identified in the past, but the attributes he bears, namely a palm of martyrdom and a heart, which appears to be pierced and clearly inscribed with the monogram IHS, suggest that he is St. Ignatius of Antioch: According to the Legenda Aurea, St. Ignatius of Antioch was tortured for his faith and martyred by being thrown to the lions in Rome, but before his death, he explained to his tormentors that he bore the name of Christ inscribed on his heart.