首字母D中的圣阿加莎殉难 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	首字母D中的圣阿加莎殉难
品名（英）	Martyrdom of Saint Agatha in an Initial D
入馆年号	1975年，1975.1.2488
策展部门	罗伯特·雷曼典藏系列（Robert Lehman Collection）
创作者	Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)【1405 至 1481】【意大利人】
创作年份	公元 1467 - 公元 1476
创作地区
分类	手稿和照明（Manuscripts and Illuminations）
尺寸	10 3/8 x 10 1/8 英寸 (26.3 x 25.7厘米) Initial: 8 11/16 x 9 1/4 英寸 (22.1 x 23.5厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅微型画最初被收录在由萨诺·迪彼得罗为锡耶纳的圣玛利亚·德拉斯卡拉医院照明的一本对立面作品中。首字母D中的场景说明了对圣阿加莎盛宴（2月5日）的一种回应："Dum toruretur beata Agatha in mamilla graviter dixit ad iudicem impie crudelis et可怕的暴君"（当幸运的阿加莎胸部受到残酷折磨时，她对法官说：无神、残忍、臭名昭著的暴君）。首诗描绘了圣阿加莎的殉难，在她拒绝他的示好后，罗马执政官昆蒂努斯下令对其进行酷刑和处决。布置精美的室内、优美的人物和明亮的调色板与可怕的主题形成了鲜明的对比 1456年至1476/77年间创作和装饰的医院唱诗班，代表了15世纪锡耶纳最大、最负盛名的手稿委员会之一。到十五世纪中期，萨诺·迪·皮埃特罗是锡耶纳的主要画家和装饰家之一，他被委托装饰该系列二十卷中的至少五卷。Lehman Saint Agatha是他亲手绘制的许多首字母和全叶之一，这些首字母和全叶在19世纪的某个时候被从这些书中移除并卖给了收藏家，之后这些唱诗班的书被转移到了大教堂歌剧博物馆。
介绍（英）	This miniature was originally included in an antiphonary volume illuminated by Sano di Pietro for the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena. The scene inside the initial D illustrates one of the responses for the Feast of Saint Agatha (February 5): "Dum torqueretur beata Agatha in mamilla graviter dixit ad iudicem impie crudelis et dire tyranne" (While blessed Agatha was being cruelly tortured in her breasts, she said to the judge: godless, cruel, infamous tyrant). The initial portrays the martyrdom of Saint Agatha, whose torture and execution were ordered by the Roman consul Quintianus, enthroned at right, after she refused his advances. The beautifully appointed interior, graceful figures, and luminous palette contrast markedly with the gruesome subject. The Hospital choirbooks, written and decorated between 1456 and 1476/77, represent one of the largest and most prestigious manuscript commissions in fifteenth-century Siena. Sano di Pietro, who by the mid-fifteenth century was one of the principal painters and illuminators in Siena, was entrusted with the decoration of at least five of the twenty volumes in the series. The Lehman Saint Agatha is one of many initials and full leaves painted by his hand that were removed from these books and sold to collectors sometime during the nineteenth century, before transfer of the choirbooks to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.