Saint Helena

ca. 1575 (Renaissance)

72.8 cm 88.7 cm 1.9 cm

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St. Helena (ca. 247-ca. 327) was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great (ca. 288-337), who, according to tradition, christianized the Roman Empire. Helena is shown holding the True Cross (the cross on which Christ was crucified), which she is said to have discovered in Je...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 115, as Francesco Salviati]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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