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Saints and virgins: Who's who? (2/7)

In front of certain tympanums, statues, columns, capitals or stained glass windows of   Romanesque or Gothic churches, we are sometimes unable to identify the characters represented.
However, there are simple means for recognizing them:


Valentine of Boulogne (1621-22)
Oil on fabric. 195 X 261 cm.
Museum of Prado, Madrid.

1: Who is this recognizable saint on the grill of his torture?

ALaurence
BAnthony
CCharles


2: Which famous palace of the Renaissance  has precisely the shape of a grill?

Athe Palace of the Doges (in Venice)
Bthe Hermitage (in Saint-Petersbourg)
Cthe Escorial (close to Madrid)

Indeed, this palace was built to commemorate the victory gained over the French in Saint-Quentin on August 10, 1557, day dedicated to this saint.

3: Who is this virgin martyr?

AUrsula
BCatherine of Alexandria
CBrigitte

She is the saint of  girls, girls to be married, students, millers, models, philosophers, among others, she has the palm leaves specific to martyrdom and often carries a crown, because it was daughter of a king.
She also holds  a book, because she had convinced the greatest doctors.
And sometimes at her side is the sword which was used for her decapitation.

4: Why is she pictured with a wheel?

AShe  is the patron of  carters
BTo evoke the torment which she underwent
Cits a symbol of scientific development


Michel-angel Merisi (known as Caravage )
Jerome Bosch (about 1598)
Oil on fabric. 173 X 133 cm.
Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.



Bartolomew Esteban Murillo
(1675-82)
Oil on fabric. 123 X 162 cm.
Museum of Prado, Madrid.


5: Which apostle was crucified on a cross in X?

AAndrew
BPhilip
CJames the Minor

6: What does his name mean in Greek?

Afaithful
Bvictorious
Cvirile


One usually finds  the four evangelists in their human form, holding or writing their Gospel, but generally they take a  symbolic appearance.
One calls "tetramorphisis" the representation of the evangelists as winged figures, including three in animal form.

7: Who is the evangelist with the bull?

  AJohn
        BMatthew
CLuc
   DMarc

8: Who is the evangelist with the angel?

  AJohn
   BMark
        CMatthew
   DLuke

 4 evangelists ' Four Evangelistes'
Benozzo Gozzoli (1464-65)
Fresco. 625 X 662 cm.
Vault absidale, Sant' Agostino, San Gimignano.


9: Who is the evangelist with the lion?

AJohn
BMark
     CMatthew
DLuke


10: Who is the evangelist with the eagle?

AJohn
BMark
      CMatthew
DLuke







page carried out on an idea of  David Tarradas Agea


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dictionary of the saints
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patron saint 02
patron saint 03
evangelists 01
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