Saint Bartholomew, Bernardo Cavallino (1645)
Saint Bartholomew sits alone in the wilderness. Enveloped in the folds of his mantle, he turns towards us, unable to look at the knife clasped in his left hand. One of the twelve apostles, Bartholomew was said to have preached the gospel in India and Armenia. When he refused to make a sacrifice to the local gods, he was horribly killed, first flayed and then beheaded.
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