15929608080001312633661000Standard Recordobject-30488170197594038816794113880001701975718968fitz-onlineadlib-object-30488https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/304885f85be84-fddb-3531-a188-b6aa9bca1c2d6personreferenceagent-156649adlib-agent-156649b8136244-9f95-308c-8abe-0f1f923893baSt Bibianareferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturecolouredreferenceterm-31364adlib-term-313640ae1aab3-446d-3aea-9a7c-b614e85bc4c2waxModelreferenceterm-108245adlib-term-108245660d049a-6eef-38ab-a8b3-15e0b593e2b8ebonized woodreferenceterm-91170adlib-term-91170d49ca0b4-ccae-3039-afe0-882c186cff25glassDepthcm5Heightcm28Widthcm23.6Framereferenceterm-23385adlib-term-233854c17df77-7d4e-32bf-8ec9-921b71d218a2religionApplied ArtsThe Martyrdom of St Bibiana. Wax coloured blue, green, flesh pink, red, brown and black and gilt. The Saint stands with her hands tied behind her back against a tree trunk. Her gown has been pulled down to reveal her body above the waist, which is pierced by six bleeding arrow wounds. She stands on rocky ground with two small rocks on the right and two larger rocks on the left. The background is black. Rectangular ebonized wood frame with glass front.M.14-19961accession numberM.14-199630488priref30488urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30488https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30488on the back of the caseinscribed in brown and crossed through in red2473stuck to the top left of back of frameinscribed in black126labelstuck to back of frameinscribed in faded black ink'From the Poniatowski Gallery/at Florence./Santa Caterina in .../eseguito da Benvanuto Cellini' and in another hand 'XVIII century'.labelstuck to back of frameinscribed in faded black inkMiss Colyear (?) Dawkinslabelstuck to back of top of the frame over the inscribed no.S. BIBIANA or VIVIANA (?)/2nd December AD.363/Bibiana is recorded after having been in vain solicited to evil to an old woman to whom she was confided, was tied to a pillar and scourged to death. Pope Urban VIII discovered the body and placed it in a porphyry shrine with the high altar near the Licinian palace. The pillar at which she was scorged (sic) is shown at Rome in the Church bearing her name./(Lives of the Saints, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould) MDCCCXCVIIIlabelthe entry for Bibiana from James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art, 1987, pp. 67-8stuck to back of top of the framelabelreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumBequeathed by Edward Joseph Pykereferenceagent-156636adlib-agent-156636dcd4e9ad-c357-3ba9-acb9-78766d40c799Pyke, Edward Joseph199619961996bequeathedEntry date: 1996-06-10177517751775circa177518251182518251825probablyreferenceagent-149652adlib-agent-1496520d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98UnknownContinental, probably Italianreferenceterm-120914adlib-term-12091438282250-24c1-3658-b0f2-472946f4254c18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#referenceterm-98879adlib-term-98879a807b416-0933-32ec-ac29-34611d921ed9reliefhistory noteProbably Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski, Florence. Miss Colyear (?) Dawkins.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumobject namereferenceterm-87228adlib-term-87228a57cbd4d-ad6a-3923-9bf3-ec56f7639213arrowsliteralarrowsarrowsreferenceterm-98879adlib-term-98879a807b416-0933-32ec-ac29-34611d921ed9reliefreliefThe Martyrdom of St Bibianaobject
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