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Mary Magdalene in ecstasy with two angels
Nativity
Massacre of the Innocents
Saint Anthony the Abbot and Saint Paul the hermit fed by a crow
Penitent Magdalene
Still life with vase of flowers
Portrait of Cardinal Alfonso Litta
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Autumn day in Capri
Procession in May
Gladiator with woman
Eruption of Vesuvius
Discoforo
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Nude woman with amphora
Situation
Still life
Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus
Trafalgar Square
Mary Magdalene in ecstasy with two angels
Nativity
Massacre of the Innocents
Saint Anthony the Abbot and Saint Paul the hermit fed by a crow
Penitent Magdalene
Still life with vase of flowers
Portrait of Cardinal Alfonso Litta
Tancred in the enchanted forest
Christ mocked
Crucifixion of Christ with the Madonna, Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene
Autumn day in Capri
Procession in May
Gladiator with woman
Eruption of Vesuvius
Discoforo
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Nude woman with amphora
Situation
Still life
Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus
Trafalgar Square

Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus

Nicolas Poussin

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National Gallery of Puglia

National Gallery of Puglia

Via Giandonato Rogadeo, 14, Bitonto

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The work is one of the two sketches of the altarpiece commissioned from the French classicist artist for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (1628-1629), now preserved in the Vatican Pinacoteca. Refusing to idolize the statue of the god Hercules, the saint was brutally martyred by rolling his intestine to a winch.
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Title: Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus

Author: Nicolas Poussin

Date: 1628 - 1629

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: National Gallery of Puglia

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