Adriaen van Wesel1417
Saint Agnes
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
Saint Agnes, who was put to death by the Romans for her Christian faith and thereafter worshipped as a martyr, was depicted by Adriaen van Wesel as a graceful, medieval noblewoman. The lamb at her feet alludes to her having appeared after her death, wearing a golden robe, with a white lamb (agnus, the Latin for lamb) at her side.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- BK-KOG-1732
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
