Italian school of the fourteenth century. Santa Águeda. Stone sculpture sculpted with remains of polychrome. ...

Italian school of the fourteenth century. Santa Águeda. Stone sculpture sculpted with remains of polychrome. According to Santiago de la Vorágine in his work "The Golden Legend", in times of persecutions against Christians, decreed by Emperor Decius, the proconsul of Sicily, Quintianus, rejected in his advances by the young Águeda, who had already offered her virginity Jesus Christ, in revenge for not getting his pleasures, sends her to a lupanar, where miraculously Águeda preserves her virginity. Even more enraged, he ordered the young woman to be tortured and her breasts cut off. She has been represented in her martyrdom, hanging upside down, with the executioner armed with pincers and twisting her bosom. Also holding her own pliers in her hand and an angel with her breasts on a tray or herself carrying a tray or plate with her breasts cut off. In this case, the saint is represented with a bare breast and a book in her left hand. 88 x 29 x 22 cm.