Pietro Perugino
St. Lucy
1505
Oil (?) on wood, 63 x 26⅜ in. (160 x 67 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.293.2, Gift of the Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation
St. Lucy holds her second-most common attribute, a vessel of flame. She is not usually pictured with a book.
From an altarpiece for the church of the Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
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Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.