Florentine School, St. Barbara and the Tower

15th century
Tempera on wood panel
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome

This is perhaps the best known episode in St. Barbara's story. In honor of the Trinity, she tells the workmen to put three windows into the tower her father had ordered.

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