March 2012
85 posts
I Love Your Eyes
wtfarthistory:
Saint Lucy was martyred for her Christianity by having her eyes gauged out (yet she remarkably always still has eyes in works of art). Sometimes in paintings her eyes are shown on a plate like scrambled eggs, as in these examples. Today’s entry, however, shows one of the weirdest representations of the saint.
Francesco del Cossa, Saint Lucy(detail), c. 1473/1474, tempera on...
