Saint Lucy of Syracuse. 16th C statue in oak wood. Northern France. Sold.

Saint Lucy of Syracuse. 16th C statue in carved oak wood. Northern France work. Sold.

Saint Lucy of Syracuse. 16th C statue in carved oak wood. Born into a patrician family in Sicily, she was a virgin and a martyr.

Richly adorned and dressed, she holds a dish on which her eyes are placed. Her first name refers to light what generated in the popular imagination the invention of his martyrdom concerning the eyes.

Northern France work.

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