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A man stabs a woman, Saint Lucy, in the chest while another man, a priest, holds a gold cup and offers her a small white wafer in this horizontal painting. Two man flank the priest, and the group is in front of a town square. Saint Lucy has pale skin and the men have tanned skin. In the center, Saint Lucy faces us and kneels with her body angled to our right. She turns her head away from us and toward the communion wafer with hermouth slightly open. Her copper-red hair is pulled back under a golden-brown cloth, which falls over her shoulders. The bodice of her thistle-purple gown has been…

The Martyrdom and Last Communion of Saint Lucy

Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

c. 1585/1586 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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