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St Wendelin with a Donatrix

1467 · Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern

religious

This painting depicts St Wendelin with the donatrix Barbara Strauss of Nördlingen. It is signed FW and dated 1467. St Wendelin (554-617) was the son of a Scottish king; after a piously spent youth he secretly left his home on a pilgrimage to Rome.

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St Wendelin with a Donatrix