Wednesday, April 20, 2011

St Barbara


St Barbara
50x50 cm
Giclée print on canvas
2011
model: Charlie Buckitt

This portrait is especially done for an exhibition with the theme
"Martyrs" that will take place on Nov 2011 in London.
Saint Barbara is the patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers,
miners and others who work with explosives because of her old legend's
association with lightning.
She is invoked against thunder and lightning and all accidents arising
from explosions of gunpowder.
She is the patron of the Italian Navy and is also recognized as the
patron saint of U.S. Navy.
According to the hagiographies the whip used to torture her
miraculously became a peacock feather, so it became part of her
iconography.

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