Martyrdom of a Saint
Hermann Samuel Ratzerdorfer
1866–1891
- Medium
- silver
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.6 x 5.5 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Northern Italy, early 16th century
About
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.