Saint Roderick (Murillo)

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Saint Roderick (c. 1650-1655) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Saint Roderick is a c. 1650-1655 oil on canvas painting of Saint Roderick by Murillo, now in the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.[1][2][3] He is shown vested as a priest in a chasuble (with a central motif of Saint Andrew and Saint Peter) and a maniple and holding a biretta and a martyr's palm.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Catalogue entry".
  2. ^ The Work of Murillo. New York: Brentano’s, 1913, p. 20.
  3. ^ "Artehistoria entry".
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Enrique Valdivieso González: Murillo: sombras de la tierra, luces del ciel. Madrid: Sílex, 1990, s. 95–96. ISBN 84-7737-029-X.