Domenico Beccafumi
Italian, 1486?-1551

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Disemboweled by Trajan's Torturers, 1525/27

Oil on panel
diameter: 24 in. (61 cm)
Inscribed on band surrounding the image: [...]QVALE IN QVESTA CHONPAGNIA LA SVA MAN SIGNATIO EPISCHOPO ANTIOCHIA D [G?]B
Gift of Richard L. Feigen, 1986.1366

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

F. Bisogni, "Le opere di Domenico Beccafumi nella Collezione di Galgano Saracini," Prospettiva 26 (1981), pp. 32, 34-35, figs. 6-8.

A. Angelini in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exh. cat. (Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, 1990), p. 120, under no. 11.

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 28-31 (ill.).

Ownership History

Probably Compagnia di San Michele Arcangelo, Siena, by 1525/27 [the Confraternity of St. Michael Archangel possessed a relic of the St. Ignatius referred to in the inscription on the painting; see F. Bisogni, 1981, pp. 32, 34, 46, no. 44]. Probably Chigi-Saracini collection, Palazzo Chigi-Saracini, Siena, by 1819 [the Chigi-Saracini possession is suggested by F. Bisogni, 1981, pg. 34, citing Relazione in compendio delle cose più notabili nel Palazzo e Galleria Saracini di Siena, Siena, 1819, p. 66]. Richard L. Feigen, New York, 1981-86; given to the Art Institute, 1986.