Bernardo Daddi
Polyptych of San Pancranzio: Detail, St. Reparata

Circa 1335
Tempera on wood
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

St. Reparata's green robe and blond "page boy" hair style are similar to the portraits in Daddi's cycle on her passion and martyrdom. The red-cross flag in her hand appears in a few of her other paintings. It is an secondary flag of the city of Florence, whose primary flag features a red lily on a white field:

Ghirlandaio's frescos in the Hall of Lilies in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. The two flags of the city flank a fresco of St. Zenobius, its 4th-century bishop. The lion holding the red-cross flag is the "Marzocco," another symbol of the city.

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Photographed at the Uffizi by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.