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Martyrdom of a Saint
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About this work
Recent research has revealed that this plaquette—long characterized as an Italian object from the 1500s—is indeed by the hand of a 19th-century silversmith working in Vienna. The subject of the Renaissance-style object also cannot be precisely identified, although it was long associated with the beheading of Saint Paul.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMartyrdom of a Saint, after 1866. Hermann Samuel Ratzerdorfer (Austrian, 1815–1891). Silver; overall: 9.6 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp, 1970.122
