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St. James Led to His Martyrdom

Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	c. Time between 1453 and 1455

St. James Led to His Martyrdom was a scene, part of a fresco, by Andrea Mantegna. The fresco was found in the Ovetari Chapel of the Eremitani Church in Padua.The scene was found on the lowest row on the left wall, painted sometime between 1453 and 1455.It was destroyed on March 11, 1944, when the Ovetari Chapel in Padua was bombed by the Allies during World War II.^[1]

Luckily, the British Museum owns a preparatory drawing for the painting.

v t e Andrea Mantegna
Paintings	St Mark (1448) Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457) Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451) St. Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451) San Luca Altarpiece (1453) St. James Led to His Execution (c.Time between 1453 and 1455) Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) Agony in the Garden (c. 1458) Crucifixion (1459) Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459–1460) St. Bernardino of Siena between Two Angels (1460) Death of the Virgin and Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin (c. 1461) Portrait of a Man (c. 1460) Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470) St. George (c. 1460) San Zeno Altarpiece (1460) St. Sebastian (of Vienna) (c. 1459) Uffizi Triptych (Ascension; Circumcision; Adoration of the Magi) (1462) The Ascension (1462) The Circumcision (1464) Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459–1466) St. Sebastian (of the Louvre) (c. 1480) Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486) Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488–1500) Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1490) Madonna of the Caves (1490) St. Sebastian (of Venice) (1490) Madonna and Child with Three Saints (1490–1500) Resurrection (1492–1493) Descent into Limbo (1492–1493) Christ the Redeemer (1493) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Dublin, c. 1495) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Washington, 1495) Exemplary Women of Antiquity (1495–1500) Sibyl and Prophet (1495–1500) Madonna della Vittoria (1496) Trivulzio Madonna (1497) Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) Ecce Homo (c. 1500) Holy Family (c. 1500) Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502) The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (c. 1505–1506) Baptism of Christ (1506)
Frescoes	Camera degli Sposi (1465–1474)
Related	Mantegna funerary chapel

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