Tag: Pacecco De Rosa
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Pacecco de Rosa’s Saint Barbara – with footnotes #192
Sold for 37,500 USD in January 2011 Saint Barbara, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Heliopolis Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon, and recent discovered texts in the Saida early church archives suggest her maternal grandmother…