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Saint Bartholomew
(1589)
no. 6 from the Christ, the Apostles and St Paul series 1589
- Medium
- engraving
- Measurements
- 12.5 × 10.3 cm (image and sheet, trimmed within platemark)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- New Hollstein 40; Bartsch III.49, p. 53; Strauss 272; Hollstein VIII.40; Hirschmann 40
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.l.: HG (monogram)
printed in ink l.c.: (...illeg.) (incomplete; sheet trimmed) - Accession Number
- 1278.217-3
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- 14th - 16th Century Gallery - Painting & Decorative Arts
Level 1, NGV International - About this work
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The Twelve Apostles were Jesus’s closest disciples and played a significant role in establishing Christian communities across the ancient world. Saint Bartholomew served as a missionary in Ethiopia, Mesopotamia, Parthia (modern-day Iran), Lycaonia (modern Turkey) and Armenia. He is believed to have been flayed and beheaded under the orders of the Armenian king Astyages. In his series Christ, the Apostles and St Paul, Dutch engraver Hendrick Goltzius depicts the saint holding a flaying knife, symbolising his martyrdom and unwavering faith.
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- apostles Bartolomew, Saint (Christian character) beards knives martyrs saints
