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…
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The Martyrdom and Last Communion of Saint Lucy

painter Veronese (Venetian, 1528 - 1588)

c. 1585/1586

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 139.7 × 173.4 cm (55 × 68 1/4 in.) ; framed: 189.87 × 224.16 × 6.99 cm (74 3/4 × 88 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions violence, death or gore. How works are placed

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