03 works, Today, September 22nd, is Saints Digna and Emerita's day, their story illustrated #264

Pietro Andrea Barbieri

 Detail of the altarpiece of the Chapel of Saints Digna and Emerita, c. 1727

Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome,

Pietro Antonio or Pier Antonio Barbieri or Barbieri Pucciardi (active 1702-1730s) was an Italian painter, active in Rome, as a painter of religious subjects.

He was born in Fosdinovo and studied in Bologna with Giovanni Giuseppe del Sole. From there he traveled to Rome to study at the Accademia di San Luca, where he won prizes in 1702. In 1727 he was a custodian of the Academy, and secretary of the Academy in 1729. He painted the Cappella Casoni and the cupola of the Sarzana Cathedral. More on Pietro Andrea Barbieri

Saints Digna and Emerita (died 259 AD) are venerated as saints by the Catholic Church. They were martyred at Rome. Their feast day is celebrated on September 22.

Antonio Tempesta 

Sts Digna and Emerita, c. 1570-1591

Imagini di molte SS Vergini Rom.e nel martirio

Etching

Height: 73 millimetres, Width: 118 millimetre

British Museum

St Emerita falling on the ground to right, and St Digna seated on the ground to left, with two men standing behind them stoning them and putting stones in their mouths.

Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 5 August 1630) was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp.

He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. He was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He was part of the large team of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions. He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting. More Antonio Tempesta

Their relics are said to lie at the church of San Marcello al Corso, in Rome, although it is recorded that on April 5, 838, a monk named Felix appeared at Fulda with the remains of Saints Cornelius, Callistus, Agapitus, Georgius, Vincentius, Maximus, Cecilia, Eugenia, Digna, Emerita, and Columbana. More on Saints Digna and Emerita

Book cover, by Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605

Saint Digna and Saint Emerita

Title: Historia of the holy Roman virgins with various annotations and with some short lives of their holy relatives: and of the glorious martyrs papia and mauro Roman soldiers work / de Antonio Gallonio Romano, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory

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