''Saint Quentin'' is a painting attributed to the Italian

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Jacopo Pontormo Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as ''Jacopo da Pontormo'', ''Jacopo Pontormo'', or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound s ...

, executed in 1517, now in the Museo Civico in

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Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

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Lives of the Artists ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' ( it, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as ''The Lives'' ( it, Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-ce ...

'', one of Pontormo's pupils, Gianmaria Pichi, was commissioned by his hometown of Sansepolcro to make a processional standard with the figure of

Saint Quentin Saint Quentin ( la, Quintinus; died 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint. Hagiography Martyrdom The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen who was martyred in Gaul. He is said to have been the son of a ...

. Pontormo decided to collaborate on the work, to the extent that he finished most of it. The saint's posture resembles that of the ''

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Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was in ...

(1513-1516), a friend of Pontormo. The position of the nails in the saint's body is directly inspired by his entry in

Jacobus de Voragine Jacobus de Voragine (c. 123013/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the '' Golden Legend'', a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the me ...

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Legenda Aurea The ''Golden Legend'' (Latin language, Latin: ''Legenda aurea'' or ''Legenda sanctorum'') is a collection of hagiography, hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in late Middle Ages, medieval Europe. More than a thousand ma ...

'', which is a collection of

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Quentin Quentin is a French male given name from the Latin first name ''Quintinus'', diminutive form of ''Quintus'', that means "the fifth".Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Th� ...

Paintings by Pontormo 1517 paintings Torture in art Paintings in the collection of the Museo Civico di Sansepolcro