Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew

1722
Church of San Stae, Venice

The torturer prepares to flay the St. Bartholomew with a knife. Conceivably the rope tying the saint's left hand is an indication that, as the Golden Legends suggests, he was first crucified, then taken down before he expired, and then flayed.

It is not clear what the hand in the lower left corner is all about.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.