Saint Barbara - in Art

In Art

Saint Barbara is depicted in art as standing by a tower with three windows, carrying a palm branch and a chalice, sometimes with cannons depicted by her side.

  • Saint Barbara flees from her father, by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1620)

  • The Holy Family with Saint Barbara and young Saint John, by Paolo Veronese (c. 1565)

  • Saint Barbara, by Jan van Eyck (c. 1437)

  • Traditional holy card design for Saint Barbara

  • A Greek Orthodox icon of Saint Barbara.

  • Saint Barbara by Corrado Parducci

  • Sculpture of Saint Barbara on the Charles Bridge, Prague, by Jan and Ferdinand Brokoff, 1707

  • An altar at St. Verena's Catholic Church in Roggenbeuren depicting Saint George and Saint Barbara.

  • Saint Barbara crushing her infidel father, with a kneeling donor, by Domenico Ghirlandaio, ca. 1473

  • Fourteenth-century sculpture in the Musée National de l'Age Médiévale, Paris

  • St. Barbara receiving Christ's consolation while in prison

  • Sculpture of St. Barbara above the entrance to Santa Barbara dei Librari

  • St Barbara Directing the Construction of a Third Window in Her Tower, by the Master of the Joseph Sequence.

  • The Martyrdom of St Barbara, by the Master of the Joseph Sequence.

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