The Burial of St. Petronilla is an altarpiece painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) around 1623. It simultaneously depicts...

Petronilla (Aurelia Petronilla) is an early Christian saint. She is venerated as a virgin by the Catholic Church. She died in Rome at the end of the 1st...

Gregory XIV. At the end of the aisle is an altar containing the relics of Saint Petronilla and with an altarpiece The Burial of St Petronilla by Guercino...

Museum), and the St. Petronilla Altarpiece for St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican (now in the Museo Capitolini). Following the death of Gregory XV in...

Francesco Barbieri (Guercino). It is now on display in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica of Rome. The painting shows two young shepherds staring at a skull...

the town of Cento to present to cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali, papal legate in Ferrara. It hangs now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. The subject of...

was part of the mausoleum's 8th-century conversion into the Chapel of St Petronilla. The first burial inside the mausoleum was that of the augusta Maria...

Penthièvre, from whom they were seized in 1794. A copy of the original has hung in the Galerie dorée since the 19th century. "HERSILIE SEPARANT ROMULUS ET TATIUS...

Cato of Utica Bidding Farewell to his Son is a 1635 oil on canvas painting, housed at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 1872. It shows the aftermath...

oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino, a rare instance of pure landscape in his work. It is now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm...