The Martyrdom of the Seven Sons of Saint Felicity, Francesco Trevisani, 1709 Canvas Print
The painting depicts the Martyrdom of the Seven Brothers, the sons of Saint Felicitas. Saint Felicitas is depicted kneeling to the right of the center, comforting her youngest son Martialis and pointing to the angel who comes flying in from above with the seven crowns and seven palm branches of martyrdom. The statue of Mars, right behind her, represents the pagan gods who refused to worship the early Christian widow. To the left of the statue sits the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius on a throne, who ordered Felicitas to witness the death of her seven sons before she herself was executed. Right in the foreground, Saint Januarius (flogged with lead balls); in the middle and left in the foreground, Saint Alexander and the beheaded Vitalis; in the middle, sitting and kneeling, Saint Phillippus and Felix; in the background, Saint Silvanus is thrown from the tower. In the background a hedge of spectators and a statue of one of the Vestal Virgins in a niche. To the left of the pedestal of the Mars statue is a self-portrait of Trevisani, looking out the painting. On the far left in the foreground a second self-portrait of Trevisani at its best. On the pedestal the coats of arms of Colbert and Arnauld de Pomponne under the crown of a marquis. The coats of arms and crown refer to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Torcy, and his wife, Cathérine-Félicité Arnauld de Pomponne, to whom the painting was given by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in 1709.
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