Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs

South Netherlandish

Not on view

According to an early medieval legend, Saint Ursula and eleven thousand virgins were massacred by the Huns with arrows at Cologne. The saint originally may have held an arrow and a palm, signifying her martyrdom. A large series of similar figures for sculptural altarpieces was made in Malines in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century

Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish

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Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish
Saint Ursula of Cologne and Four Virgin Martyrs, Oak, polychromy and gilding, South Netherlandish

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